Health & Social Care study guides

A guide to the internally assessed CCEA A2 1 Applied Research unit. Covers the research process, quantitative and qualitative data, primary methods and secondary sources, sampling, the ethical principles that protect participants, and how findings are presented, analysed and evaluated for reliability and validity.

A deep-dive guide to the externally assessed CCEA A2 2 Body Systems and Physiological Disorders unit. Covers the cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive systems and their physiological disorders (coronary heart disease, asthma and type 2 diabetes), and how disorders are monitored, diagnosed and treated, with the structure-to-function links and exam patterns CCEA repeats.

A deep-dive guide to the externally assessed CCEA A2 3 Providing Services unit, examined from pre-release stimulus material. Covers the structure and sectors of service provision, access and referral, partnership working and integration, and safeguarding and quality assurance, with the exam patterns CCEA repeats.

A deep-dive guide to the externally assessed CCEA A2 4 Public Health and Health Promotion unit. Covers public health and inequalities, the approaches to health promotion, the models (Tannahill and Ewles and Simnett) and planning and evaluating a campaign, and the agencies and settings that deliver health promotion, with the exam patterns CCEA repeats.

A guide to the internally assessed CCEA A2 5 Supporting the Family unit. Covers the types and functions of the family, the changes and pressures families face, and the statutory, health, education and voluntary services and professionals that support families, with family policy and partnership working.

A guide to the internally assessed CCEA AS 1 Promoting Quality Care unit. Covers the values of care and care value base, the rights of service users and responsibilities of workers, anti-discriminatory practice, the imbalance of power and how codes, standards and regulation maintain quality care.

A guide to the internally assessed CCEA AS 2 Communication unit. Covers the types and contexts of communication in care, the communication cycle, the factors and skills that support effective communication, the barriers that obstruct it, and the strategies and aids used to overcome them.

A deep-dive guide to the externally assessed CCEA AS 3 Health and Wellbeing unit. Covers the concepts and definitions of health, the factors affecting wellbeing, the effects of health and ill health and how health is measured, and how health improvement is promoted and supported, with the exam patterns CCEA repeats.