Health 10 4th Quarter

• Career


  is an occupation or profession that requires special training.
• Health Career


  Designed to let the students familiarize with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services.
• Health Career Planning


  Refers to an individual's plan to make a career choice, growing in a chosen career or making a career shift. Career planning involves the very important step of self-assessment.
• Examples of Health Career

  • Health care interpreter
  • Clinical social worker
  • Dental assistant
  • Medical assistant
  • Practical nurse
• Steps in making Health Career Plan

  1. Self-Assessment
  2. Career Exploration
  3. Decision Making
  4. Plan of Action
• Self-Assessment


  Discover your personal strength, through self-assessments (values, interests, personality, testing skills etc.
• Components of Self-Assessment step are your:

  • strengths and weaknesses
  • interests and hobbies
  • personal experience
  • family income
  • skills and competencies
• Career Exploration


  You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships alumni connections, professional resources.
• Career Exploration includes

  • listing down of health career option
  • conduction informational interview
  • job shadowing (on-the-job learning)
  • job tempting (short term job)
  • attending internship
  • volunteering
• Decision Making


  Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can evaluate and narrow down your options through listing the pros and cons, comparing your personal strengths and interest, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.
• Decision making includes:

  • narrowing down your choices
  • listing pros and cons
  • comparing your personal strengths and interests
  • choosing a specific health career to pursue
  • considering suggestion of family
  • finally deciding a health career to take
• Plan of Action


  Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, identify actions for each step utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly.
• Plan of Action includes:

  • designing a plan to reach health career goals
  • identifying short-term and long-term goals
  • identifying education and training requirements
  • developing job search strategies
  • creating road map considering possible problems that may arise along the way
• Community Healthcare


  Specialist in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.

  Example: Barangay or Community Health worker, Health coach
• Dental Health


  deal with various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and facial pain, oral sores, gum disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, other diseases and disorder that can affect oral cavity.

  Ex.: Dental hygienist, Dental Assistant, Dentist, Dental Nurse
• Disease Prevention and Control

  People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-communicable disease. Their work includes immunization, screening newborns

  Ex. Disease Detective, Nurse, Epidemiologist
• Drug Prevention and Control

  to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs.

  Ex. Addiction counselor
• Emergency Medical Services


  specialize in out-of-hospital medical care.

  Ex. Emergency Medical Responder, Emergency Medical Aid
• Environmental Healthcare Management

  establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.

  Ex. Air Pollution Analyst, Environmental Health Educator
• Health Education


  Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare.
• Maternal and Child Care

  These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families. This include providing information on reproductive health, family planning.
• Mental Healthcare


  specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills.
• Nutrition

  Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patient's health.
• Occupational Safety

  are related to the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
• Personal Healthcare


  healthcare related tasks in a personal care level.
• Medical Profession


  is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine.
• Allied Health Professions

  are lines of work that still deals with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine.
• Health Care Provider


  a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability.
• Health Care Practitioner/Provider


  an independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the body.
• Allied Health Professionals


  a trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner.

  pharmacists, dental hygienists, physical therapist and nurses
• Prevention


  keep illness or injury from happening
• assessment/evaluation


  appraisal of the condition based on the patient's subjective report
• identification/diagnosis


  analysis based on signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings
• treatment


  management and care of a patient or the combating of disease or disorder
• rehabilitation/habilitation


  treatment designed to recover from injury, illness, or disease towards a normal condition as possible
• promotion of health and well-being


  the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improving their health
• Audiologist


  identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related disorders
• Chiropractor


  diagnoses and treats neuromuscular disorders, with emphasis on treatment through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine.
• Clinical Psychologist


  assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent mental disorders
• Dietitian/Nutritionist


  promotes good health through proper diet and treatment of diseases