Health

• Career pathways


  Clusters of occupations that are grouped because of shared skills
• Why understand health career pathways

  • Makes it easier to identify health career professions
  • Assists in choosing a health career
  • Helps develop a plan to prepare for a chosen health career
• Health career pathways


  • Disease Prevention and Control
  • Personal Healthcare
  • Maternal and Child Care
  • Mental Healthcare
  • Community Healthcare
  • Environmental Healthcare Management
  • Drug Prevention and Control
  • Nutrition
  • Health Education
  • Dental Health
  • Occupational Safety
  • Emergency Medical Services
• Disease Prevention and Control

  People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Disease Prevention and Control

  • Chemist
  • Education and Research
• Personal Healthcare


  Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level
• Maternal and Child Care

  These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families
• Maternal and Child Care

  • Midwifery
  • Pediatricians
• Mental Healthcare


  These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills
• Mental Healthcare


  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Guidance Counseling
• Community Healthcare


  Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members
• Community Healthcare


  • Barangay/Community Health Work
  • Rural Sanitary Inspection
• Environmental Healthcare Management


  These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment
• Environmental Healthcare Management


  • Air quality monitoring
  • Soil science analysis
  • Hazardous and solid waste management
• Drug Prevention and Control

  People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy
• Drug Prevention and Control

  • Drug Enforcement
  • Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation