Assignment: Learner information
OCR Level 3 Health and Social Care
Unit 6: Sociological Perspectives for Health and Social Care
Assessor:
Important Dates
Assessment Criteria / Issue Date / Formative Assessment / Summative AssessmentTask 1 / P1 / 4th March 2013 / 11th March 2013 / 18th March 2013
Task 2 / P2, M1 / 4th March 2013 / 11th March 2013 / 18th March 2013
Task 3 / P3, M2, D1 / 11th March 2013 / 18th March 2013 / 25th March 2013
CANDIDATE NAME:
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General Information for Learners
Q Do I have to pass this assignment?
A Yes. You must pass this assignment to achieve the full qualification.
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Scenario
Health matters
The Local Health Service has published the following article in their monthly magazine.
Your college have been asked by the local health service to investigate the need for a new health centre within the college.
You have been asked to research the patterns and trends within your local area and to apply these to the different views of health and ill-health.
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Tasks
Task 1: Sociological perspectives
Assessment Criteria P1
Write an essay that describes the perspectives as well as explaining how they view health and ill-health.
Sociological Perspectives
· Interpretative perspectives (micro level):
o Symbolic interactionism; including ‘labelling’,
o Social constructionism
· Structuralist perspectives (macro level):
o Functionalism including the ‘sick role’,
o Marxism,
o Feminism.
In your explanations try to include the following key concepts:
· Social institutions: (e.g. family, school, workplace, health and care services)
· Social groupings: (e.g. gender, social class, ethnicity, age, locality)
· Attitudes, norms, customs, ideologies,
· Primary socialisation,
· Secondary socialisation.
The evidence for this will be:
· a written report explaining the principal sociological perspectives (P1)
Task 2: Approaches to health and ill health
Assessment Criterion P2 and M1
Prepare a booklet that explains each of the sociological approaches to health and ill health. The booklet could be aimed at people who are likely to visit the new health centre. The booklet should also include similarities and differences between the medical and social model.
· Definitions of health:
o The World Health Organisation definition
o The medical model,
o The social model
· Concepts of health:
o Personal responsibility for health
o Health as the absence of illness
o The illness-wellness continuum
· Concepts of ill-health:
o Ill health as a disease,
o Ill health as a disorder,
o Ill health as a subjective feeling of illness.
The evidence for this task will be:
· a booklet that explains different sociological approaches to health and ill health (P2)
· your booklet should also compare the medical and the social models of health (M1)
Task 3: Influencing factors
Assessment Criterion P3, M2 and D1
Your final task for the health service is to research patterns and trends and produce a report of your findings. You will need to explain the patterns and trends you have found.
You should also outline and compare each of the sociological explanations for these patterns and trends.
Finally, include an evaluation of the measurements of patterns and trends.
· Measurements of health and ill-health:
o Disease incidence,
o disease prevalence,
o morbidity rates,
o mortality rates
· Evaluation of measurements of health and illness:
o the clinical iceberg,
o suitability of method,
o validity,
o reliability,
o bias,
o ethical issues
· Trends and patterns according to;
o gender,
o class,
o age,
o ethnicity
o location
· Sociological explanations of trends and patterns:
o the artefact approach,
o the socio selection explanation,
o cultural explanations
o structural explanations.
The evidence for this task will be:
· explain patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings (P3)
· compare sociological explanations for different patterns and trends (M2)
· evaluate the way patterns and trends in health and illness are measured (D1)
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Assignment: Learner checklist
OCR Level 3 Health and Social Care
Unit 6: Sociological Perspectives for health and social care
CANDIDATE NAME:
For task 1 (AC P1) have you: / Date Completed / Ref/Page no(s)· written a report explaining the principal sociological perspectives (P1) /
For task 2 (AC P2 and M1) have you: / Date Completed / Ref/Page no(s)
· produced a booklet that explains different sociological approaches to health and ill health (P2)
· included in your booklet a comparison of the medical and the social models of health (M1) /
For task 3 (AC P3, M2 and D1) have you: / Date Completed / Ref/Page no(s)
· explained patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings (P3)
· compared sociological explanations for different patterns and trends (M2)
· evaluated the way patterns and trends in health and illness are measured (D1) /
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