4th HEALTH

• Career


  The variety of experiences that you have undertaken throughout your life
• Career planning


  An individual's plan to make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career shift
• The purpose of health careers is to familiarize students with the numerous jobs available in the associated health services and the medical field
• Judith Gerardo: 'Career planning involves the crucial step of self-assessment'
• Health career


  Designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
• Basic steps to active career planning

  1. Self-Assessment

  2. Exploration and Research

  3. Decision Making

  4. Taking Action

  5. Evaluation
• Self-Assessment


  Carefully considering, reflecting on, and evaluating your interests, personality traits, values, and talents using a variety of tools and instruments
• Exploration and Research


  Gathering, organizing, and analyzing all available resources in order to determine which top career-related possibilities are ascending to the top
• Decision Making


  Analyzing and reflecting on all of the information gathered about yourself and career options to generate realistic short- and long-term career-related goals, as well as the steps to achieve them
• Taking Action


  Being proactive with your career ambitions and having the confidence to start putting them into action
• Evaluation


  Continually evaluating and assessing your career progress, making adjustments and taking calculated risks throughout your career journey
• Public Health


  Addresses health concerns of communities at risk for disease and injury
• Pathways to Public Health

  • Assoc. Degree/Cert.
  • Undergraduate certificate
  • PH Minor
  • BSPH, BSN/BSPH
  • Graduate Certificate
  • MPH/MSN
  • MPH
  • PhD
• Career Opportunities Related to Public Health

  • Public Health Practice
  • Health Education
  • Epidemiology
  • Environmental Health
  • International Health
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Nutrition
  • Health Services Administration
• Public Health Practice


  The collection and analysis of identifiable health data by a public health authority for the purpose of protecting the health of a particular community
• Public Health Practice


  • Promotion of hand-washing and breastfeeding
  • Delivery of vaccinations
  • Suicide prevention
  • Smoking cessation
  • Obesity education
  • Increasing healthcare accessibility
  • Distribution of condoms to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases
• Health Education


  Any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and communities improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes
• Epidemiology


  The method used to find the causes of health outcomes and diseases in populations
• Environmental Health


  A field of science that studies how the environment influences human health and disease, concerned with all aspects of the natural and man-made environment
• International Health


  A logical obligation that emerges from a global prioritization of world health needs
• Maternal and Child Health


  Concerned with the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum
• Maternal and Child Health Concerns

  • Family and preconception care
  • Prenatal care
  • Postnatal care
• Nutrition


  The study of nutrients in food, how the body uses them, and the relationship between diet, health, and disease
• Health Services Administration


  The management and development of healthcare as well as its policies, products, and solutions
• People whose works are related to environment health

  • Sanitary engineer
  • Radiation safety officer
  • Environmental radiation specialist
  • Hazardous waste scientist
  • Industrial waste director
  • Water quality scientist
  • Health physicist
  • Radioactive water specialist
• Careers related to drug prevention and control

  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychologist
  • Psychiatric nurses and detox specialist
  • Counselors
  • Professors, researchers, and social workers
• Medical and Allied Profession dealt with health-related problems (cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, pneumonia, etc.)
• Cheerleading Dance


  A sport that involves a large number of young people working together to urge viewers to get involved and enjoy themselves by cheering for their hometown team
• Terms used in Cheerleading

  • Cheers - short, enthusiastic yells of support for a specific team
  • Sidelines - one-liner cheers to being shouted while a play is ongoing
  • Dances - the steps put together to form a routine that the cheer dancers may execute simultaneously with the cheers
  • Cheerleading the crowd - the responsibility of the cheerleading group is to lead the crowd into cheering for a team
  • Spotting - the stunt aims to lower the chance of someone getting injured from a fall
• Spotter


  A member of the cheerleading group whose primary role is to have full attention to the specific member on the top of the pyramid or stunt. The objective of the spotter is to break the fall of the top member.
• Hands-on spotting


  The stage when the top member is still learning a new stunt or pyramid.
• General spotting


  When the top member has mastered the stunt or pyramid.
• Catching


  The spotter assists the top member as she dismounts from the stunt or pyramid. The different catching techniques are the bear hug catch and the cradle catch.
• Pyramid formations in cheerleading dance

  • Small Tag
  • Small long beach
  • Small M
  • Small Tree variation 1
  • Small Tree variation 2
  • Big M
  • Large Tree variation 1
  • Large Tree variation 2
  • Clemson Pile
• Basic Jumps and Tumbling

  1. Bending the hips, knees, and ankles; simultaneously, the arms swing downward and backwards

  2. Arms are swung forward and upward as the hips, knees, and ankles are forcefully extended, generating force to propel you upward and forward

  3. Bend the hips, knees, and ankles upon landing and touching the ground to absorb force
• Basic Tumbling


  • Cartwheel
  • Round Off
• At all times, avoid landing on the head, neck, or back as this may cause severe injury or even death
• Do not attempt any jump, stunt, or tumbling that you are not confident in doing
• One must be knowledgeable in rolling before attempting to do jumps and tumbling
• Start with simple jumps before proceeding to the more complex ones