Created to support the GCE AS / A2 Health and Social Care (AQA) qualification, this Interactive Course Guide links into the full Health & Social Care Digital Library. Thus users have access to probably the largest single compilation of learning and teaching resource materials on Health and Care in the UK.

The guide follows the course topics as follows:

• Unit 1: Effective caring
• Unit 2: Effective communication
• Unit 3: Health, illness and disease
• Unit 4: Child development
• Unit 5: Nutrition and dietetics
• Unit 6: Common diseases and disorders
• Unit 7: Needs and provisions for elderly clients
• Unit 8: Needs and provision for early years clients
• Unit 9: Complementary therapies
• Unit 11: Working in health and social care
• Unit 13: The role of exercise in maintaining health and well-being
• Unit 14: Diagnosis and treatment
• Unit 15: Clients with disabilities
• Unit 16: Early years education
• Unit 17: Understanding mental disorder
• Unit 18: Social policy
• Unit 20: Environmental health
• Unit 21: Research methods and perspectives

Units are broken down into several topics, each of up to several pages, which link students directly to relevant library resources. The user has full access to the whole library, complete with the more traditional search engine and drill-down navigation.

In this way, the guide acts as a sort of librarian, pointing users to the right sections and giving examples of specific relevant resources whilst giving them free rein to research the whole collection.

Each unit also includes a dozen or so multiple-choice questions intended for self-testing, to reinforce the key points covered and flesh out the theory with examples.