Health

• Decisions about health information, products and services are made by a person who purchases goods and services
• Reliable sources of health information

  • Medical and health professionals
  • Government agencies
• Unreliable sources of health information

  • Quack
  • Faith healer
  • Superstition
  • Information based on ignorance and prejudice
  • Commercialized health information
• Consumer is a person who purchase goods or services
• Health products are items we consume to improve our well-being
• Health services are provided by professionals and organizations who are licensed to provide medical care, diagnose and treatment
• Health services

  • Individual health professional
  • Health facility organization
• Health services provided

  • Medical care
  • Diagnose
  • Treatment
• Types of health services providers

  • Pediatrician
  • Ophthalmologist
  • Dermatologist
  • Cardiologist
  • Pulmonologist
  • Neurologist
  • Gastroenterologist
• Pediatrician


  Medical specialists who diagnose, treat and provide medical care for babies, children and teenagers
• Sustainable development goals are set and adopted by countries around the world on 25th of September in 2015
• Main sustainable development goals

  • End poverty
  • Zero hunger
  • Good health and well-being
  • Quality education
  • Gender equality
  • Clean water and sanitation
  • Affordable and clean energy
  • Decent work and economic growth
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Reduced inequalities
  • Sustainable cities and communities
  • Responsible consumption and production
  • Climate action
  • Life below water
  • Life on land
  • Peace, justice and strong institutions
  • Partnership for the goals
• Poverty

  Income less than $1.25 per day. Goal is to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030
• Zero hunger


  End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
• Good health and well-being


  Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Quality education


  Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Gender equality

  Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
• Clean water and sanitation

  Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
• Affordable and clean energy


  Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
• Decent work and economic growth

  Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Industry, innovation and infrastructure

  Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• Reduced inequalities


  Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Sustainable cities and communities

  Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• Responsible consumption and production

  Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Climate action

  Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Life below water

  Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
• Life on land

  Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss
• Peace, justice and strong institutions


  Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
• Partnership for the goals


  Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
• World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is a modern-day global public health treaty about the effects of tobacco
• Occupation


  A career or profession that requires special training
• Health career planning


  An individual's plan to make a career choice, grow in their chosen career, or make a career shift
• Things to consider in choosing a career

  • Good salary
  • Job security
  • Do work that interests you
  • Find a health career that fits your educational plans
  • A clear path to advancement
  • Work with people (or not)
• Self-assessment


  Discovering your personal strengths through self-assessment (values, interests, personality, learning, skills, etc). It is the first part of career planning and means finding out more about what you want from work.
• Career exploration


  Exploring different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, informational interviews, internships, alumni connections, professional resources
• Decision-making


  Evaluating and narrowing down your options by listing pros and cons. There is no right way to go about this and people have different approaches that work for them.
• Plan of action


  Set achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, identify each action for each step, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly
• Health career


  Jobs in the medical field including roles like doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers
• Health careers


  • Involve a lot of responsibilities
  • Can be fulfilling because they focus on keeping people healthy and preventing sickness
• Health career plan


  A personal strategy for choosing, advancing or changing careers in the health care field