QCE Health past exams 2020–2024, by year and topic

The rest of the syllabus

Question-level mapping for these areas is still being verified. Every official paper covering them is in the year table above.

• Unit 1: Resilience as a personal health resource — Salutogenic (strengths-based) approach to health · Personal, social, economic and environmental determinants of health · AIHW conceptual framework for determinants of health · Health as a dynamic, holistic and personal resource · Building and strengthening personal resilience
• Unit 2: Peers and family as resources for healthy living — Role and influence of peers and family on health behaviours · Elective topic: Alcohol · Elective topic: Body image · Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion · Health-promoting actions at the peer/family level
• Unit 3: Community as a resource for healthy living — Elective topic: Homelessness · Elective topic: Transport safety · Elective topic: Anxiety · Social ecological model and determinants in a community context · Context analysis and needs assessment · Diffusion of innovations model applied to a target group/setting
• Unit 4: Respectful relationships in the post-schooling transition — Innovations that influence respectful relationships · Life course transition to post-schooling contexts (work, further study, gap year) · Diffusion action strategies: mediate, enable, advocate · Evaluating and reflecting on health-promoting action strategies · Synthesising evidence into a reasoned action strategy
• Health inquiry model (cross-unit skills) — Defining and understanding a health topic/issue · Reframing a topic into a contextualised issue · Planning for action · Implementing, evaluating and reflecting on action strategies · Analysing and interpreting unseen stimulus/source material (EA skill)