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Hello and welcome to this revision video on how to answer People's Health question number two. Really for question number two, it's really important to have a really good focus on second order concepts. So the second order concepts are cause and consequence, similarity and difference, significance and continuity and change. You're really going to have to hone in for question two, particularly on either cause and consequence, similarity and difference or continuity and change. So there's some good language there to help you in your historical analysis. The first step when you get your question two is to make sure you decode the exam question. Now question two is the same type of question that you will do for Make it America. So you just need to follow the same exam technique that you understand for that. The question here, the stem for the question two is always write a clear and organised summary that analyses. So the clear and organised summary is very much your good knowledge and your analysis is linking it in with a second order concept. So let's read the question. Write a clear and organised summary that analyses public health in medieval monasteries. Support your summary with examples. This question is worth nine marks, they award six for your use of knowledge and three for your use of analysis. Clear and organised means specific knowledge relevant to the question. Analyses means that you need to link your knowledge to a second order concept. Your answer must of course focus on public health and medieval monasteries and make sure of course you stick to the correct time period. So in this case, it's medieval times. Remember for people's health generally, just having a good grip on those different time periods is absolutely crucial. Checklist for the question. Include information from the correct time period, precise and relevant knowledge that can be a key date, key event, key individual, key statistic. Organise each paragraph around a second order concept that might be cause consequence, change continuity or similarity and difference. You need to include two clear examples and fully explained, that are fully explained so it's two paragraphs and we're looking for two really good paragraphs here. So you're looking for like maybe sort of seven, eight, nine lines, something like that. And make sure you're using historical language that links in the second order concepts, using phrases like this shows that to really show your analysis. What you have to do for this question is you need to make sure that each paragraph has a clear link to a second order concept. So for this question, write a clear and organised summary that analyses public health and medieval monasteries. Support your summary with examples. It's going to be quite straightforward actually to link this to the idea of cause and consequence. And in a way that changes your question to almost like why was there, for example, good public health and medieval monasteries. So we know, you should know from your knowledge that public health and medieval monasteries is pretty good. So if you link that into causation, then the question effectively becomes why was there good public health and medieval monasteries. You could do it differently. So you could look at, for example, change. So you could therefore talk about how far or in what ways did public health and medieval monasteries change? Because actually across the time period, by the 15th century, the role of medieval monasteries and public health was beginning to decline. You could, of course, look at similarity and difference as well. So compare public health and medieval monasteries to other places in medieval times, like towns, for example, just making sure you do really stay focused on medieval monasteries. But I think that part of the challenge to this question is picking the appropriate second order concept that's going to be the easiest for you to write about. So let's have a look at these two examples. So the first paragraph linked to cause consequence, you might say something like public health and medieval monasteries was generally of a very high standard. For example, they tended to have cleaner water and often latrines were positioned over rivers to take waste away. An example of this would be Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. This was because monasteries were often built away from unhealthy conditions in the towns. This meant that there was more space for them to build latrines, which were built away from living areas. In addition, this also enabled them to build infirmaries, which again were placed in a separate part of the monastery, which would have limited the spread of infection. So some really good knowledge there and some really clear links to second order concepts of cause and consequence. It goes without saying, if you only use your knowledge for this question, then you can get a maximum really of three marks. It's really important to go into a good amount of detail. Second paragraph, another reason for good public health and monasteries is because pure and clean water is important to the work of monks, including for baptisms, mass and washing rituals. This meant that monasteries were built near to rivers to supply clean water. They often piped water in from the hills. This links to the wealth of the Catholic Church, which could afford to build man-made waterways and aqueducts to supply clean water. They were also able to build trenches and lay pipes and had the money to do this, unlike town councils, which couldn't. Therefore, the ideas and money of the Catholic Church enabled monasteries to quote, set the standard for good public health. Just in the top right hand corner there, you've got some links to second order concepts and some good phrases to use when you're writing about them. Okay, so that is how to answer a public health question. Thanks very much for listening. Bye bye.