MAPEH Health

• Career


  An occupation or profession that requires special training
• Health career


  • Designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
  • Requires self-assessment to understand one's capabilities and drawbacks
  • Involves continuous learning and improvement to build and grow in the chosen career path
• Things to consider when pursuing a health career

  • Make a difference in people's lives
  • 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)
• Components and steps in making a health career plan

  1. Self-assessment

  2. Career exploration

  3. Decision making

  4. Plan of action
• Self-assessment


  Discover your personal strengths through self-assessments (values, interests, personality, testing, skills, etc.)
• Career exploration


  Explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources
• 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
• Plan of action


  Plan achievable goals, develop strategies to reach goals, organize goals into smaller steps, identify actions for each step, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt plan regularly
• PROVERBS 19:21: 'You can make many plans but the Lord's purpose will prevail'
• Career pathways


  Clusters of occupations 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 on how to prepare for a chosen health career
• Examples of 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
• Medical profession


  A group of individuals qualified to practice medicine
• Allied health professions


  Lines of work that still deal with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine
• Health care providers

  • Health care provider
  • Health care practitioner/provider
  • Allied health professionals
• Categories of medical and allied health professions

  • Technicians
  • Technologists/Therapists
• Technicians


  Those who undergo training to perform specific procedures, required to work under supervision of technologists or therapists
• Technologists/Therapists


  Have more intensive training, evaluate patients, diagnose conditions, develop treatment plans, understand rationale behind treatments, assess patients' responses and make appropriate decisions
• Career Pathways


  Clusters of careers or occupations that are grouped because of shared skills
• Nutrition Health Career Pathways


  • Finding ways to balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patients' health
• Nutrition Health Career Pathways


  • Clinical Dietetics
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Education and Research
• Disease Prevention and Control


  • Focuses on communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Disease Prevention and Control

  • Community Health Work
  • Education and Research
  • Nutrition
• Dental Health


  • Deals with various oral conditions
• Environmental Healthcare Management

  • Establish the correlation between green attributes and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment
• Environmental Healthcare Management

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


  • Seeking to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse
• Drug Prevention and Control

  • Drug Enforcement
  • Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation
• Emergency Medical Services


  • Specializes in out-of-hospital medical-care
• Emergency Medical Services

  • Emergency Medical Aid
  • Paramedic
• Career pathways are clusters of occupations that are grouped because of shared skills
• Career pathways share in the level of education, training and skills
• Nutrition specialists find ways to balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patients' health
• People who specialize in drug prevention and control pathway focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases
• People whose careers revolve around drug prevention and control increase community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse
• In emergency medical services, paramedics can perform emergency medical procedures without the presence of a doctor
• Immunization and new-born screenings are some of the works of the people who specialize in the disease prevention and control
• Nutrition specialist may also be called as dietitian
• Dental health deals with the oral health of dentists only