Health and Social Care (GNVQ Health and Social Care: Advanced - Neil Moonie)

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Product:	GNVQ Health and Social Care: Advanced - Neil Moonie
Date:	21/07/01 (371 review reads)
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As some of you might know I am currently on a disability studies course but I was previously on a GNVQ Advanced in Health and Social Care course. The book that I am doing this opinion I think come a close second to the Advanced Health and Social Care by CTAD. This book is aimed at people who have brief or very limted knowledge about Health and Social Care.

This book can be used as a textbook, for courses like GNVQ Advanced in Health and Social Care, and also courses like GCSE Biology and information technology. ( As there are some units in this book on the physical aspects of health and social well-being) . (I personally used it for both, I have also used this book for the HND course that I am presently on). It can also be picked up and read by anyone who wants to read about different aspects of Health and Social Care, ranging from human growth and development to method’s for promoting and protecting health and social well being. .

I bought this book because it is very detailed and I found it to be very detailed and it also has great pictures to accompany the text that is written in this book. This book was one of many different health and social care books that the course tutors, recommended it to me.

At the beginning of the chapters in the book, it gives you a brief paragraph of what is in the chapter, with key words that are highlighted in green.

Synopsis of This Book

This book gives information on the eight mandatory units that Health and Social Care students have to cover. This book helps produce work that match evidence indicator requirements that Health and Social Care students have to produce.

Lets go into the main chapters of this book. The main chapters in this book are;-

Equal Opportunities and Rights
Interpersonal Interaction
Physical Aspects of Health and Social Care
Psychosocial Aspects of Well-being
Health and Social Care Services
Health and Social Car
e Practices
Educating for Health and Social Well-being
Research in Health and Social Care

Equal Opportunities and Rights

This section of the book has three main parts legal rights and responsibilities, discrimination and individuals and ethical issues in Health and Social Care. This chapter of the book helps you understand legal rights in relation to discrimination. It also covers the value base for health and social care, the historical background of equal opportunities legislation, disabled persons act, children act 1989 and also it covers consistencies and inconsistencies in the rights of individuals under equality of opportunity legislation.

Interpersonal Interaction

This section of the book has three main sections, which are, exploring interpersonal interaction, skills for interpersonal interaction and also interacting with service users. This chapter of this book I found very useful because it tells you how to use and how to interpret people and your own self body language. It also covers, barriers to communication, body movements in interpersonal interaction, optimizing effective communication, empowerment, and also making recommendations for improvements in interaction.

Physical Aspects of Health and Social Care

This chapter of this book covers subjects like growth and development, normal body ranges and also structures and systems in the human body. This chapter goes into detail in the following subjects; cell organelles and their functions, tissues and their functions, factors influencing growth and development, cognitive development, homeostatic mechanisms and also electrolyte concentrations in body fluids.


Psychosocial Aspects of Health and Social Well-being

This section of the book also has three sections covering subjects from, human growth and development to the effect of socioeconomic factors. It also covers subjects in detail in myelination, factors influencin
g growth and development, was piaget’s view of cognitive development the whole story, theories which emphasis the personal building or construction of personality and also inter- relationships between socio economic factors, demographic characteristics and health.

Health and Social Care Services

This chapter of the book provided information on various subject topics like, Access to services, The effect of government policy and also The structure of Health and Social Care. This chapter
Goes into detail in the following subjects, the legal framework for the provision of care, provision of care in the private and voluntary sectors, informal care provision, government polices and funding, the structure of the NHS and also contracting and assessing the providers ability to deliver services.

Health and Social Care Practices

This section of the book covers key topic area’s such as, planning care and interventions, promoting health and social well being and also service users and care provision. This chapter covers in detail, the care planning system, practitioners involved in care planning, the assessment process as a basis for interventions, implementing the macro care plan, changes in care planning and interaction and also involving clients.

Educating for Health and Social Well-being

This section of the book is heavily influenced by Health Promotion. I Personally found this chapter boring and long winded. This chapter covers in detail, what is health, what factors affect health, what is health education, who provides health education, promoting healthy living practices, analysing the main aspects of a health promotion campaign and the methods used and also the reasons, sources for sources of and methods used in health education campaigns.

Research in Health and Social Care

This section of the book has three main topic area which are, the research process, planning research and
gathering data and also presenting data in the form of a research project. This chapters goes into detail on the subjects of:; the role of research, research questions and research structures, sources of data and also planning research and gathering data.


Also included in this are three chapters aimed at developing your key core skills, which are:

Communication,
Application of Number and also
Information technology.

Also in this book are:-


Evidence collection points- to help the reader develop their portfolio,

Fast Facts- to provide a quick reference section and to provide help for the end of unit tests,

Case Studies- this showed me how to link the theory side of health and social care to practice on work placement.

At the end of each chapter there are multiple choice questions to help you with the end of unit tests.

Details on this book

Title: Advanced Health and Social Care (GNVQ)

Editor: Neil Moonie

Published By: Heinemann

ISBN: 0-435-45253-3

Other Details: 624 Pages

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