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CCEA A-Level Health and Social Care 0003
Promoting Quality Care
Topic overviewThe values of care and their impact on service usersIndividual rights and choicesAnti-discriminatory practiceRespect, dignity and confidentialityChildren's rights and special educational needs legislationHuman rights and safeguarding legislationDisability discrimination legislationMental health legislation and capacityHealth and safety legislation, COSHH and RIDDORPolicies that promote quality carePoor practice and its impact on people
Communication in Health, Social Care and Early Years Settings
Topic overviewThe range of people staff communicate withVerbal communicationNon-verbal communication and body languageWritten and electronic communicationThe purposes of communication in care settingsConfidentiality and privacy in communicationPhysical and emotional factors that support communicationPractitioners' communication skillsBarriers arising from sensory impairment, illness and disabilityBarriers arising from mental health, language and cultureOvercoming barriers to communicationTeam communication and reflecting on your own practice
Health and Well-Being
Topic overviewConcepts of health, ill-health and diseaseMental health, mental illness and psychological well-beingThe needs of service users and how settings meet themThe effects of ill-health on education, employment, income and relationshipsSocio-economic factors affecting health and well-beingInherited conditions: cystic fibrosis and Huntington's diseaseConditions associated with ageing: osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetesEnvironmental factors: location, pollution and occupational hazardsBehavioural factors: exercise, diet, smoking, alcohol and drug useApproaches to health promotion and personal responsibilityStatutory services and the World Health OrganisationVoluntary, private and commercial providersPrejudice, discrimination and stereotypingAnti-discriminatory practice and equality law in Northern Ireland
Safeguarding Children
Topic overviewPhysical development from one to eight yearsIntellectual and language development from one to eight yearsEmotional and social development from one to eight yearsPromoting development through activities and interactionPiaget and Vygotsky in early years practiceSkinner and Bandura: managing behaviour and modellingErikson and Bowlby: attachment, identity and settling inTypes of abuseIndicators of abuse in childrenSafeguarding responsibilities and the setting's policiesFactors that increase the risk of child abuse
Adult Service Users
Topic overviewKey concepts in work with adults: need, protection, disability, empowerment and person-centred careOlder people: needs and how they are metAdults with physical disabilities: needs and how they are metAdults with learning disabilities: needs and how they are metAdults living with mental ill health: needs and how they are metHealth practitioners working with adult service usersSocial care practitioners and advocacyReablement and the care planning cycleThe Bengoa Report and a new model of health and social careConfidentiality, safeguarding adults and whistle-blowing policiesStatutory, private and voluntary provision and how it is fundedInformal carers and the Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
Holistic Therapies
Topic overviewThe holistic approach and safe practiceAcupunctureAromatherapyHerbalismReflexologyPilates and kinesiologyMedical approaches: medication, surgery and physiotherapyManaging asthma, high blood pressure and arthritisManaging insomnia, migraine, back pain, depression and irritable bowel syndromeComparing holistic therapies and medical treatmentsCurrent trends, evidence and holistic therapies in care settings
Understanding the Physiology of Health and Illness
Topic overviewThe animal cell and its organellesCell specialisation and the four tissue typesThe organisation of the nervous systemThe major areas of the brainNeurones, the reflex arc and the synapseMultiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and strokeThe endocrine glands and their hormonesType 1 and type 2 diabetesThe digestive system and how food is broken downPancreatitis, cirrhosis of the liver and stomach ulcersThe urinary system and the kidney nephronRenal failure, incontinence and dehydrationLiving with a physiological disorder
Applied Research
Topic overviewChoosing a research topic and writing a rationaleResearch objectives and the hypothesisSearching the literature and using secondary sourcesHarvard referencing and citing sourcesQuestionnaires as a research toolInterviews and interview schedulesObservation and observation chartsValidity and reliability in research designSampling techniques and representativenessEthics in research with people who use servicesCollating and presenting quantitative dataAnalysing results and drawing conclusionsEvaluating the methodology and recommending improvements
Body Systems and Physiological Disorders
Topic overviewThe heart and the cardiac cycleBlood, blood vessels and the double circulationControl of heart rate and blood pressureThe respiratory system, ventilation and gas exchangeBehaviour that protects the heart and lungsNormal ranges for pulse and breathing rates, and causes of deviationMonitoring pulse and breathing safely before and after exercisePresenting and analysing monitoring resultsCoronary heart disease, asthma and other physiological disordersDiagnostic techniques and what each one showsTreatments, care pathways, practitioners and support servicesThe effects of a physiological disorder on everyday life
Providing Services
Topic overviewThe origins of the welfare stateLegislation shaping service provision in Northern IrelandSafeguarding, mental health and disability legislationPolicies in health and social care settingsDemographic trends and their effect on servicesStatutory, private, voluntary and informal providersHow the providers are fundedIntegration, community care and evaluating provisionMeeting physical, intellectual, emotional and social needsAccessing services and routes of referralBarriers to access and how they are overcomeThe roles and specialisms of practitionersInterdisciplinary team workingCodes of practice, regulation and quality assurance
Public Health and Health Promotion
Topic overviewThe concept of public healthPublic health issues in the United KingdomHow public health issues are addressed in Northern IrelandLegislation, taxation and the law as public health toolsThe Public Health Agency and its campaignsApproaches to health promotionEvaluating a health promotion campaignChoosing a topic, an aim and a target groupDelivery methods and materialsDrawing up and justifying the planDesigning tools to evaluate the activityCarrying out and evaluating the activity
Supporting the Family
Topic overviewFamily structures since the Second World WarWhy family structures have changedHow families meet physical and intellectual needsHow families meet emotional and social needsHealth and social care services a family may needStatutory services and how they support familiesThe private sector and informal careVoluntary organisations supporting familiesEffects on families of accessing servicesDomestic violence, child abuse and addictionPoverty, mental illness and bereavement in familiesPoor parenting, behavioural problems, special needs and racism
Understanding Human Behaviour
Topic overviewThe psychoanalytic perspective and Freud's theory of personalityThe humanistic perspective and Rogers' theory of personalityBehaviourism: Pavlov, Skinner and conditioningThe cognitive perspective: Beck and EllisSocial learning theory and the Bobo doll experimentThe biological perspective on behaviourPerspectives on depression and its treatmentPerspectives on aggression and its treatmentPerspectives on stress and its managementPerspectives on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosaPerspectives on phobias and their treatmentSocio-economic influences on behaviour
Human Nutrition and Health
Topic overviewProtein, carbohydrate and fat: functions and sourcesVitamins: functions, sources and deficiencyMinerals, water and dietary fibreCurrent dietary guidance and the bodies that issue itNutritional requirements at each stage of lifeVegan diets and meeting nutritional requirementsEnergy requirements, basal metabolic rate and activity levelsModifying recipes and diets for intolerance and allergyDiet-related conditions of the gut, bowel and teethDiet, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesityFactors influencing food choiceFood hygiene and the safe storage and preparation of foodFood poisoning bacteria, symptoms and food safety enforcement
Health and Well-Being
- 14 subtopics
- 42 things to know
- AS 3
What Health and Well-Being covers
Health and Well-Being is examined in Unit AS 3, Health And Well-Being — compulsory for every award. It covers concepts of health, ill-health and disease, mental health, mental illness and psychological well-being, the needs of service users and how settings meet them, the effects of ill-health on education, employment, income and relationships, socio-economic factors affecting health and well-being, inherited conditions: cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease, conditions associated with ageing: osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetes, environmental factors: location, pollution and occupational hazards, behavioural factors: exercise, diet, smoking, alcohol and drug use, approaches to health promotion and personal responsibility, statutory services and the World Health Organisation, voluntary, private and commercial providers, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping and anti-discriminatory practice and equality law in Northern Ireland.
Where it is assessed
AS 3
Health And Well-Being — a written examination.
Check the CCEA specification ↗The 14 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Concepts of health, ill-health and diseaseNegative definition of health, positive definition of health and term ill-health.Open →
- Mental health, mental illness and psychological well-beingTerm mental health, term mental illness and psychological well-being.Open →
- The needs of service users and how settings meet themFour categories of need used in health and social care, intellectual need and two physical needs specific to a child under five.Open →
- The effects of ill-health on education, employment, income and relationshipsReasonable adjustments, extra costs a household faces when someone becomes seriously ill and young carer.Open →
- Socio-economic factors affecting health and well-beingSocio-economic factor in health and how homelessness damages health.Open →
- Inherited conditions: cystic fibrosis and Huntington's diseaseCarrier of cystic fibrosis and three effects of Huntington's disease on a person.Open →
- Conditions associated with ageing: osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetesThree joints most commonly affected by osteoarthritis and two everyday physical effects of osteoarthritis.Open →
- Environmental factors: location, pollution and occupational hazardsEnvironmental factor affecting health, postcode lottery in health services and how noise pollution affects health.Open →
- Behavioural factors: exercise, diet, smoking, alcohol and drug useBehavioural factor in health, three conditions linked to physical inactivity and eatwell Guide.Open →
- Approaches to health promotion and personal responsibilityHealth promotion, behaviour change approach and social change approach in the United Kingdom.Open →
- Statutory services and the World Health OrganisationThe statutory bodies delivering health and social care in Northern Ireland and what each is responsible for, alongside the World Health Organisation's role in setting international standards, monitoring disease and coordinating responses.Open →
- Voluntary, private and commercial providersVoluntary organisation, private or commercial provider and holistic therapies offered privately.Open →
- Prejudice, discrimination and stereotypingTerm prejudice, term discrimination and difference between prejudice and discrimination.Open →
- Anti-discriminatory practice and equality law in Northern IrelandAnti-discriminatory practice and law that prohibits racial discrimination in Northern Ireland.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Who does Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke support?
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Give one criticism made of the World Health Organisation's definition of health.
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Define the term mental health.
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Give three ways a long absence affects a child's education.
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Explain the pattern often summed up as women being sicker and men dying quicker.
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What pattern of inheritance does cystic fibrosis follow?
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What is osteoarthritis?
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What is meant by an environmental factor affecting health?
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How much physical activity a week do the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers recommend for adults?
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What is health promotion?
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When was the World Health Organisation founded, and what is it part of?
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Define the term prejudice.
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What is anti-discriminatory practice?
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What is meant by a negative definition of health?
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Define the term mental illness.
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What are the four categories of need used in health and social care?
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Explain how a chronic condition can affect study at college or university.
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Give two reasons men consult a doctor less often than women.
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Which gene is faulty in cystic fibrosis?
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Why is osteoarthritis described as a condition associated with ageing?
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Give two health disadvantages of living in a remote rural part of Northern Ireland.
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Give three physical benefits of regular exercise.
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Give one strength and one weakness of the medical approach.
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Give three functions of the World Health Organisation.
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What does Marie Curie provide?
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Define the term discrimination.
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Which law places a duty on public authorities in Northern Ireland to promote equality of opportunity?
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Define the term ill-health.
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Explain why good mental health is not simply the absence of mental illness.
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Give three physical needs shared by all service users.
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Give two ways an employer can help an employee return to work after illness.
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Name the four explanations of health inequality set out in the Black Report of 1980.
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If both parents carry the cystic fibrosis gene, what is the chance in each pregnancy that the child will have the condition?
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Name three joints most commonly affected by osteoarthritis.
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Give two health disadvantages of living in an inner city area.
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Give two psychological benefits of regular exercise.
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Give one criticism of the behaviour change approach.
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Name one disease the World Health Organisation has led a global eradication campaign against.
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What does Age NI do?
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Explain the difference between prejudice and discrimination.
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Which body enforces equality law in Northern Ireland?
Take Health and Well-Being further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Illness vs Disease
Illness: what the person feels and reports. Disease: the diagnosable disorder a clinician identifies.
Self-advocacy vs Independent advocacy
Self-advocacy: a person speaking up on their own behalf. Independent advocacy: a trained outsider speaking on their behalf.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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How does the World Health Organisation define health?
Model answer
The World Health Organisation defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
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Give one criticism made of the World Health Organisation's definition of health.
Model answer
Critics argue that a standard of complete well-being is unattainable, so almost the whole population would be classed as unhealthy.
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What is meant by a negative definition of health?
Model answer
A negative definition treats health as the absence of disease, illness or physical abnormality.
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What is meant by a positive definition of health?
Model answer
A positive definition treats health as the presence of physical fitness, emotional stability and social well-being rather than simply the lack of disease.
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Define the term ill-health.
Model answer
Ill-health is a state in which a person's physical, mental or social functioning is impaired, whether or not a disease has been diagnosed.
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Define the term disease.
Model answer
A disease is a recognised disorder of the body or mind with an identifiable cause, a set of signs and symptoms and a typical course.
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Health and Well-Being revision questions
- What does Health and Well-Being cover in CCEA A-Level Health and Social Care?
- 14 subtopics: concepts of health, ill-health and disease, mental health, mental illness and psychological well-being, the needs of service users and how settings meet them, the effects of ill-health on education, employment, income and relationships, socio-economic factors affecting health and well-being, inherited conditions: cystic fibrosis and huntington's disease, conditions associated with ageing: osteoarthritis and type 2 diabetes, environmental factors: location, pollution and occupational hazards, behavioural factors: exercise, diet, smoking, alcohol and drug use, approaches to health promotion and personal responsibility, statutory services and the world health organisation, voluntary, private and commercial providers, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping and anti-discriminatory practice and equality law in northern ireland. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Health and Well-Being organised?
- By the CCEA 0003 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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