HEALTH REVIEWER

• Career plan


  Gives you the much-needed direction and makes it clear where you see yourself in the future
• Career plan


  Makes you aware of your strengths and weaknesses and the skills and knowledge that are required to achieve your goals in the future
• Career plan


  Developing a plan will help you maintain a sense of direction and keep you working toward your end goal
• Career plan


  Should be thought, realistic, and most importantly, flexible
• Components/Steps of a health career plan

  • Self-assessment
  • Career exploration
  • Career identification
  • Career action plan

  
• Self-assessment


  • Develop an understanding of yourself, your interests, abilities, and career planning barriers
• Career exploration


  Explore different career and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources
• Career identification/decision making


  Evaluate and narrow down options through listing pros and cons, comparing personal strengths and interests, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals

  
• SMARTER system


  Useful for planning career goals
• Career action plan


  Design a plan to reach health career goals, identify short-term and long-term goals, identify education and training requirements, develop job search strategies, identify potential employers and create a road map considering possible problems that may arise along the way

  
• A well-thought-out career action plan is a very useful tool in career planning because it gives one the needed clear direction to where one will be in the future
• A well-thought-out career plan serves as a road map that may grow and change as one moves through the attainment of the plan
• If you have chosen the wrong career

  You will not be happy with your job/work, get bored and feel worn out, and feel jealous of others who became happy and successful in their chosen career
• A personal health career plan should be thought, realistic, and most importantly, flexible

  
• Career path


  A series of jobs that lead you closer to your career goals and vision for life
• Health career pathways

  • Disease prevention and control (public health)
  • Nutrition and dietetics
  • Dental health
  • Environmental healthcare management
  • Drug prevention
  • Emergency medical services
  • Mental health
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Health promotion
  • Nursing
  • Personal healthcare
• Disease prevention and control (public health)


  • Focuses on communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Sample careers in disease prevention and control (public health)

  • Community or Barangay Health Worker
  • Education and research
  • Disease Detective
  • Nurse
  • Epidemiologist
  • Epidemiology Assistant
  • Infection Prevention and Control Specialist
• Maternal and child care


  • These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families. These include providing information on reproductive health, family planning and improvement of health delivery system through advocacy, education and research.
• Sample careers in maternal and child care

  • Maternal and Child Health Specialist
  • Midwife
  • Community Health Educator
  • Outreach Specialist
  • Pediatrician
• Mental health


  • Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.
• Sample careers in community healthcare

  • Barangay or Community Health Worker
  • Health Coach
  • Community Health Educator
  • Community Outreach Manager
  • Family Advocate
  • Peer Counselor
  • Public Health Aide
• Dental health


  • Deals with various oral conditions
• Sample careers in dental health

  • Dental Hygienist
  • Dental Assistant
  • Dentist
  • Dental Nurse
  • Dental Health Support
• Nutrition and dietetics


  • Finding ways to balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patients' health.

  
• Environmental healthcare management


  • Establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.
• Sample careers in environmental healthcare management

  • Air Pollution Analyst
  • Environmental Health Educator
  • Environmental Health Inspector
  • Environmental Health Specialist or Manager
  • Environmental Toxicologist
  • Groundwater Protection Specialist
• Drug prevention


  • Seeking to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse.
• Sample careers in drug prevention

  • Drug enforcement
  • Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
  • Addiction counselor
  • Addiction nurses
  • Detox specialist
• Emergency medical services


  • Specializes in out-of-hospital medical care.
• Sample careers in emergency medical services

  • Emergency medical aid
  • Paramedic
  • Emergency medical responder
  • Emergency medical technician
• Occupational health and safety


  • Can find employment in a variety of industries, hospitals, and manufacturing.
• Sample careers in occupational health and safety

  • Industrial hygienist
  • Health physicist
  • Environmental protection officer
  • Occupational health and safety technician
  • Health inspector
  • Industrial hygienist
• Health promotion


  • Assess health problems, identify health needs and risk factors, plan and implement health promotion programs, and carry out evaluation procedures. They facilitate behavior change and promote wellness via public relations, marketing, fund-raising, and creative incentive programs. They also implement programs in fitness, nutrition, wellness, smoking cessation, stress management, and dependent behavior.
• Nursing


  • Includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people.
• Personal healthcare


  • Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level. These include monitoring patients; administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene; performing housekeeping duties; and advising clients on related healthcare issues like infant care, hygiene and nutrition.
• Health career pathways

  • The table below summarizes the health career pathways and the different health careers that fall under each category