This research dashboard is designed for AQA A Level Sociology and fits the Health option section on inequalities in the provision of and access to healthcare. The AQA specification for Health explicitly includes this topic and asks students to study patterns in access and provision for different social groups, including social class, region, gender, ethnicity, age and disability.
The activity below is different from the earlier scenario format. Students use filter tabs to focus on particular social groups, then match key terms and named ideas to broader theoretical perspectives such as collectivism and universalism, marketisation and autonomy, organisation and regulation, and structural inequality and inverse care. That helps them move from remembering isolated terms to building a clearer theoretical map of the topic.
Healthcare Access Research Dashboard
Use the filters to focus on a social group, then match key terms to the theory or perspective they fit best.
How to use it: start with All groups, or filter by social class, region, gender, ethnicity, age or disability. Then decide which perspective best fits each term.
The four perspectives: collectivist and universalist welfare, marketisation and autonomy, organisation and regulation of provision, and structural inequality / inverse care.
Perspective dashboard
Build a short conclusion
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