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Introduction to Social Work: Chapter 6

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Hospital Insurance and Diagnosis Act
b) Constitution Act
c) Health Care Act
d) Medical Care Insurance Act

Question 2:


a) Financial incentives
b) Federal mandates
c) Economic and climate conditions
d) Epidemics

Question 3:


a) Millions of Canadians did not have health-care coverage.
b) Some provinces had not established hospital insurance plans.
c) The federal government was not cost-sharing with territories.
d) Canadians were organizing private health insurance plans.

Question 4:


a) Comprehensiveness
b) Public administration
c) Portability
d) Accessibility

Question 5:


a) No federal financial support
b) Lack of legislation
c) Physicians were permitted to opt out
d) Only hospital coverage was offered

Question 6:


a) It allowed the federal government to impose financial penalties on non-complying provinces.
b) It covered more health-care services.
c) It introduced the principle of public administration.
d) It introduced one national health-insurance plan.

Question 7:


a) 1996
b) 2004
c) 2012
d) 1984

Question 8:


a) Social and economic conditions impact health.
b) Individuals are responsible for their own health.
c) Healthy communities are more likely to produce healthy individuals.
d) Income is the most comprehensive determinant of health.

Question 9:


a) Pathway effects
b) Cumulative effects
c) Latency effects
d) Predisposition effects

Question 10:


a) Income
b) Health-care utilization
c) Educational attainment
d) All of the above

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False