Pearson Edexcel GCSE Level Health and
Social Care Component 3 Exam Questions
With 100% Verified Answers
What is health? - answer✔Health is a state of Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social
Wellbeing.
What is wellbeing? - answer✔Wellbeing is the state of being comfortable, happy and healthy.
what is the holisitic approach? - answer✔The holistic approach to care is to look at the person as
a whole rather than just the part that requires treatment or care.
What is a physical factor? - answer✔A physical factor that can have positive or negative impact
of a persons health and wellbeing.
What is a genetically inherited conditions? - answer✔Inherited conditions passed to children
from their parents due to faulty alleles.
What is a dominant allele? - answer✔Alleles that are always expressed.
What is a recessive allele? - answer✔An allele that can only be expressed if an individual has
two copies of the gene.
What is predisposition? - answer✔A higher likelihood for a person to suffer from a condition.
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What are the factors of predisposition? - answer✔Genetic, Environmental or both.
What is ill health? - answer✔Ill health is being unwell with a chronic condition that can have
lifechanging effect on someone's health and wellbeing.
What is mental health? - answer✔Emotional, Psychological and Social wellbeing are other
factors that has a physical impact on our health and wellbeing.
Effects of mental health - answer✔How we think. feel. behave, handle, react and choose.
Hormones released by stressful situations - answer✔Adrenaline and Cortisol.
What is adrenaline? - answer✔Hormone released by adrenal glands as a response to stressful
situation which causes the body to flee, fight or freeze.
What is cortisol? - answer✔Hormone that regulates bodies stress levels.
What is the relationship between cortisol and stress levels? - answer✔Directly proportional.
What is stress? - answer✔Stress is the body's response to change.
Effect of low levels of stress - answer✔Better thinking and concentration.
Effect of intense and/or long term stress - answer✔Anxiety
What is physical ability? - answer✔How well a persons body can do physical actions.
One effect of physical ability - answer✔Carrying out day 2 day activites.
What is a sensory impairment? - answer✔Loss or partial loss of any of the 5 senses.