CCEA AS-Level Health and Social Care 0003
Promoting Quality Care
Communication in Health, Social Care and Early Years Settings
Health and Well-Being
Safeguarding Children
Adult Service Users
Holistic Therapies
Understanding the Physiology of Health and Illness
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. CCEA AS Health and Social Care students sit this topic in the first year.
- 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.
Who does Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke support?
Give one criticism made of the World Health Organisation's definition of health.
Define the term mental health.
Give three ways a long absence affects a child's education.
Explain the pattern often summed up as women being sicker and men dying quicker.
What pattern of inheritance does cystic fibrosis follow?
What is osteoarthritis?
What is meant by an environmental factor affecting health?
How much physical activity a week do the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers recommend for adults?
What is health promotion?
When was the World Health Organisation founded, and what is it part of?
Define the term prejudice.
What is anti-discriminatory practice?
What is meant by a negative definition of health?
Define the term mental illness.
What are the four categories of need used in health and social care?
Explain how a chronic condition can affect study at college or university.
Give two reasons men consult a doctor less often than women.
Which gene is faulty in cystic fibrosis?
Why is osteoarthritis described as a condition associated with ageing?
Give two health disadvantages of living in a remote rural part of Northern Ireland.
Give three physical benefits of regular exercise.
Give one strength and one weakness of the medical approach.
Give three functions of the World Health Organisation.
What does Marie Curie provide?
Define the term discrimination.
Which law places a duty on public authorities in Northern Ireland to promote equality of opportunity?
Define the term ill-health.
Explain why good mental health is not simply the absence of mental illness.
Give three physical needs shared by all service users.
Give two ways an employer can help an employee return to work after illness.
Name the four explanations of health inequality set out in the Black Report of 1980.
If both parents carry the cystic fibrosis gene, what is the chance in each pregnancy that the child will have the condition?
Name three joints most commonly affected by osteoarthritis.
Give two health disadvantages of living in an inner city area.
Give two psychological benefits of regular exercise.
Give one criticism of the behaviour change approach.
Name one disease the World Health Organisation has led a global eradication campaign against.
What does Age NI do?
Explain the difference between prejudice and discrimination.
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.
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
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.
- 4
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.
- 5
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.
- 6
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.
What is inside Levo
Six ways to work the same material.
Health and Well-Being revision questions
- Is Health and Well-Being examined at AS in CCEA Health and Social Care?
- Yes. It sits in AS 3, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
- What does Health and Well-Being cover in CCEA AS-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.
Every question in Health and Well-Being, on a schedule.
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