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Incorrect: The first medical school was not established in Saskatoon in 1868.
B
Incorrect: The first medical school was not established in Ottawa in 1867.
C
Correct: The first medical school in Canada was established in 1825 in
Montreal.
D
Incorrect: The first medical school was not established in Kingston in 1855.
PTS: 1
Incorrect: William Kelly did not deduce that smallpox could be eliminated with
a vaccine.
Incorrect: William Kelly did not deduce that education level was related to
health.
Incorrect: William Kelly did not introduce quarantine to contain disease.
Correct: William Kelly suspected a relationship between sanitation and disease
and deduced that water might be a source of contamination.
Correct: The Order of St. John was introduced in Canada in 1883; the members
had knowledge of first aid, disaster relief, and home nursing.
Incorrect: The Veterans Society did not play a part in the evolution of health
care in Canada.
Incorrect: The St. Andrew’s Society did not play a part in the evolution of health
Incorrect: The Canadian Nurses Association did not play a part in the early
evolution of health care in Canada.
Incorrect: The Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act did not propose
an increase in tax for provinces without a plan.
Correct: Under the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act (1957), provinces and territories with a health insurance plan would have funding
matched by the federal government by 50 cents for every dollar.
the removal of insured medical services.
Incorrect: The Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act did not allow
physicians to charge a fee for service.
Incorrect: The need to educate more nurses was not part of post–World War II
thinking in Canada.
Incorrect: The lack of responsibility of the government to provide health care
was not part of post–World War II thinking in Canada.
Incorrect: The belief that families should bear the cost of health care was not
part of the political thinking in post–World War II Canada.
Correct: In post–World War II Canada, and in the aftermath of a depression, the thinking shifted to the idea that governments had an obligation to provide Canadians with a better standard of living, including access to quality health
care.
ANS: A
Correct: The Hospital Insurance Act was passed by the government of Saskatchewan, led by Tommy Douglas, in 1947. It guaranteed Saskatchewan
residents hospital care in exchange for a modest insurance premium payment.
Incorrect: The Medical Care Act was not passed in Saskatchewan in 1947.
Incorrect: The Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act was not passed
in Saskatchewan in 1947.
Incorrect: The Canada Health Act was not passed in Saskatchewan in 1947.
ANS: C
Incorrect: The Hall Report did not propose that individuals pay for some of their
health care costs.
Incorrect: The Hall Report did not propose that preventive health measures
would be a wise investment.
Correct: The Hall Report recommended an end to extra billing and suggested
that, instead, doctors be allowed to operate entirely outside of the Medical Care Act.
Incorrect: The Hall Report did not propose that provinces should retain all
financial responsibility for health care.
Incorrect: Tax cuts did not cause the inadequacy of funding.
Correct: In the few years following the introduction of the EPF Act, health care spending continued to increase dramatically, resulting in provincial and
territorial overspending and necessitating cuts to health care.
Incorrect: Education cost was not the reason for inadequate health care funds.
Incorrect: The population increase was not the reason for inadequate funding of
health care.
Incorrect: Health insurance for dental care was not covered by the Canada
Health Act.
Incorrect: The Canada Health Act mandated insurance for all medically
necessary services.
Incorrect: The Canada Health Act sought to provide care for all eligible
Canadians, not every person living here.
Correct: One of the Canada Health Act’s goals was to provide accessible health
care to eligible Canadians.
Incorrect: The Romanow Report did not recommend user fees.
Incorrect: The Romanow Report did not recommend funding for health care
from private sources.
Correct: The Romanow Report recommended that the criterion of accountability
should be added to the Canada Health Act.
Incorrect: The Romanow Report did not recommend that rural Canadians pay
higher insurance for health care.
Incorrect: Registration of refugees from India was not the main intent of The
India Act.
Incorrect: Recognition of the ‘Shaman’ as a powerful healer was not the intent of
The India Act.
Correct: The British North American Act (1867) and the India Act (1867) set the
stage for assimilation of Indigenous People, applying numerous restrictions to their practices and way of life.
Incorrect: The elimination of smallpox was not the intent of The India Act.
Correct: The largest number of refugees came from Syria with over 33,000 new
Canadians.
Incorrect: The largest number of refugees in Canada did not come from
Afghanistan.
Incorrect: The largest number of refugees in Canada did not come from Congo.
Incorrect: The largest number of refugees in Canada did not come from Iraq.
Incorrect: Oral history indicates that Indigenous People did not suffer from
diabetes and cancer prior to contact with Europeans.
Incorrect: Oral history indicates that Indigenous people did not suffer from
smallpox and measles prior to contact with Europeans.
Correct: Oral history indicates that Indigenous People suffered from arthritis and
jaw abscesses prior to contact with Europeans.
addictions to drugs and alcohol prior to contact with Europeans.
Incorrect: The medicine wheel does not represent body, mind, community and
nature imbalances.
Incorrect: The medicine wheel does not represent the Medicine Man, Shaman,
herbal healers, and life-givers.
Incorrect: The medicine wheel does not represent plants, herbs, roots, and fungi
as treatments.
Correct: The medicine wheel represents four parts of a person – spiritual,
physical, cognitive, and emotional.
ANS: B
Incorrect: The Segregated hospitals for Indigenous People were not initially
established to segregate Indigenous People with smallpox.
Correct: The Segregated hospitals for Indigenous People were initially
established to segregate Indigenous People with tuberculosis.
established to segregate Indigenous People with influenza.
established to segregate Indigenous People with whooping cough.
ANS: D
Incorrect: The Order of St. John is not part of a worldwide humanitarian
network providing emergency aid and disaster relief at home and abroad.
Incorrect: The Canadian Blood Services are not part of a worldwide
humanitarian network providing emergency aid and disaster relief at home and abroad.
Incorrect: The Victorian Order of Nurses is not part of a worldwide humanitarian network providing emergency aid and disaster relief at home and
abroad.
Correct: The Canadian Red Cross remains part of a worldwide humanitarian
Correct: The level of entry to practice for Registered Nurses in Canada (except
Quebec) is a baccalaureate degree.
Incorrect: The level of entry to practice for Registered Nurses in Canada (except
Quebec) is not a diploma.
Quebec) is not a graduate degree.
Quebec) is not a certificate.
Correct: Canada’s last residential school closed in Saskatchewan in 1996.
Incorrect: Canada’s last residential school did not close in Manitoba in 1931.
Incorrect: Canada’s last residential school did not close in Saskatchewan in
1968.
Incorrect: Canada’s last residential school did not close in Manitoba in 1986.
Incorrect: Priorities identified in the Advancing the Mental Health Strategy for Canada: A Framework for Action (2017-2022) do not include strategies for
management of health records.
Correct: Priorities identified in the Advancing the Mental Health Strategy for
Canada: A Framework for Action (2017-2022) include strategies to cope with the opioid crises exploding across the country.
addressing access to psychiatrists.
Incorrect: Priorities identified in the Advancing the Mental Health Strategy for
Canada: A Framework for Action (2017-2022) do not include strategies for health promotion.
Incorrect: The outcome of the talks on the new Canadian Health Accord was not
that no deal was reached and negotiations are ongoing.
to continue with the 2014 Accord.
Correct: The outcome of the talks on the new Canadian Health Accord was that
each province and territory negotiated their own terms of agreement.
that all jurisdictions eventually accepted the initial offer.
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