Test 2

Question 1

What is the first step of the policy process?

Answer 1

Agenda setting

Question 2

What part of the policy process is the public attention focusing on a public problem or issue?

Answer 2

Agenda Setting

Question 3

What part of the policy process is policy makers formally adopting a policy solution, usually in the form of a legislation or rule?

Answer 3

Policy Adoption

Question 4

What part of the policy process is policy analysis inside and outside government to determine whether the policy is addressing the problem and whether implementation is proceeding well and may recommend revisions in the agenda, in the formulation of policy, or in its implementation?

Answer 4

Policy Evaluation

Question 5

What part of the policy process is policy makers in the legislature and bureacracy taking up the issue and creating legislative, regulatory, or programmatic strategies to address the problem?

Answer 5

Policy Formation

Question 6

What part of the policy process is government agencies beginning the job of making the policy work by establishing procedures, writing guidance documents, or issuing grants-in-aid to other governments?

Answer 6

Policy Implementation

Question 7

The four skills a policy practitioner needs are

Answer 7

Analytic
Political
Interactional
Clarifying

Question 8

Which important historical policy document has shaped the Canadian Health Care sector by including a stipulation that all medically necessary health care is covered under the provincial health insurance plan?

Answer 8

Canada Health Act

Question 9

What are the healthcare values?

Answer 9

Honesty
Trust
Courage
Fairness
Caring
Respect

Question 10

What healthcare value is keeping our promises?

Answer 10

Trust

Question 11

What healthcare value is talking straight, being genuine and ethical?

Answer 11

Honesty

Question 12

What healthcare value is taking accountability for results, beng up front about mistakes and taking considered risks?

Answer 12

Courage

Question 13

What healthcare value is treating people justly and equitably?

Answer 13

Fairness

Question 14

What healthcare value is listening carefully to others, working together to achieve shared goals?

Answer 14

Caring

Question 15

Elected officials must always make choices among competing demands with their choices reflecting what?

Answer 15

Their values
The needs and interests of their constituents
Their financial supporters

Question 16

What are the six steps to evaluating a problem in a current policy?

Answer 16

1. Verify, define, and detail the problem
2. Establish evaluation criteria
3. Identify alternative policies
4. Evaluate alternative policies
5. Display and distinguish among alternative policies
6. Monitor the implemented policy

Question 17

What are the evaluation criteria?

Answer 17

Cost
Benefits
Technical feasability
Economic and financial possibility
Political viability
Administrative operability

Question 18

What are the sources of health policy?

Answer 18

Professional
Organizational
Community stakeholders

Question 19

What source of health policy is the need for standards and guidelines for practice?

Answer 19

Professional

Question 20

What source of health policy is consistent with the needs of health care purchasers (employers), payers (insurers), and suppliers (health system providers)?

Answer 20

Organizational

Question 21

What source of health policy includes the needs of special interest groups and government entities?

Answer 21

Community stakeholders

Question 22

What was the 1974 Lalonde Report?

Answer 22

“A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians” written by Marc Lalonde, Canada’s Minister of National Health and Welfare that pushed towards preventive measures in four ways: Biology (genetic factors), Environment (physical, social, economic), Lifestyle (diet, exercise, etc), and Healthcare Organization (accessibilty to healthcare).

Question 23

What was created by the World Health Organization at a conference in Ottawa in 1986 that focused on preventing disease by promoting healthy lifestyles and environments?

Answer 23

Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986

Question 24

What were the five keys in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986?

Answer 24

1. Build Healthy Public Policy
2. Create Supportive Environments
3. Strengthen Community Action
4. Develop Personal Skills
5. Reorient Health Services

Question 25

What was built on expanding the ideas from the Lalonde Report and Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion wanting to update Canada's healthcare system by focusing on modern challenges and promoting a more holistic approach to health?

Answer 25

Towards a New Perspective on Canadian Health Policy, 2001

Question 26

What is the 2002 Kirby Report's formal name?

Answer 26

The Health of Canadians - The Federal Role

Question 27

What was the point of the Kirby Report?

Answer 27

Making the healthcare system more sustainable and effective while improving access to care.

Question 28

What were the key takeaway recommendations from the Kirby Report?

Answer 28

More federal funding More private sector involvement Wait time reductions More home care and mental health services Financial protection for high prescription drug costs

Question 29

What is the criteria for evaluating alternatives that measures whether the alternative actually produces the desired result?

Answer 29

Technical Feasibility

Question 30

What measures the cost of the alternatives and the benefits it will produce?

Answer 30

Economic and Financial Possibility

Question 31

What measures whether the alternative is acceptable or can be made acceptable to relevant groups?

Answer 31

Political Viability

Question 32

What measures how possible the altnerative will be to implement?

Answer 32

Administrative Operability

Question 33

How to monitor the implemented policy?

Answer 33

Before/after comparisons With/without comparisons Actual/planned performance Experimental (controlled) models Quasi-experimental models Cost-oriented approaches

Question 34

What is essential for a policy solution to a societal problem?

Answer 34

Policital viability

Question 35

What is a policy that is considered desirable to politicians and stakeholders having the best chance of passage by a policymaking body?

Answer 35

Political Viability

Question 36

What is the difference between policy adoption and policy implementation?

Answer 36

Policy adoption is practioners trying to have the policies approved or enacted while policy implementation is carrying out the enacted policy.

Question 37

Program implementation is carried out by

Answer 37

The executive branch of government through guidelines and regulations

Question 38

True or False: It is not unusual for the intent of a policy to get lost in the translation to program.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: evaluate health problems and develop policy proposals to anaylze the severity of specific problems, to identify the barriers to policy implementation and to develop strategies for assessing programs?

Answer 39

Analytic skills

Question 40

What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: To gain and use power to develop and implement political strategy?

Answer 40

Political Skills

Question 41

What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: To participate in task groups and to persuade other people to support specific policies?

Answer 41

Interactional skills

Question 42

What 1 of 4 skills that policy practitioners need is this definition describing: To identify and rank relevant principles when engaging in policy practice?

Answer 42

Clarifying Skills