health

• Health Career


  Careers in the medical profession and allied health services
• Health careers


  • Familiarize students with various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
  • Students will learn skills necessary for their career path, which in this case is in healthcare, including working with others, communication skills, legal and ethical responsibilities, cultural considerations in healthcare industry, problem solving, decision making, accepting personal responsibility, and self-management
• Career


  An occupation or profession that requires special training
• Health career planning


  An individual's plan to make a career choice, grow in the chosen career or make a career shift
• Health career planning


  1. Self-assessment

  2. Career exploration

  3. Decision making

  4. Plan of action
• Self-assessment


  Necessary to understand one's capabilities and drawbacks
• Reasons to pursue a health career


  • Job security
  • Make a difference in people's lives
  • Do work that interests you
  • Find a job that fits your plans
  • Good salary
  • 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 and 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
• Health Career Pathways


  Clusters of occupations that are grouped because of shared skills. All pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and training. Selecting a career pathway provides you with an area of focus, along with flexibility and a variety of ideas to pursue for personal development.
• Health Career Pathways


  • Helps you develop a plan on how to prepare for your chosen health career
  • Makes it easier for you to identify health career professions
  • Assists you in choosing a health career
• Disease Prevention and Control


  People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases. Their work includes immunization, screening of newborns, promotion of breastfeeding, infant diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills.
• 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.
• 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, healthcare of pregnant women and their children, and improvement of health delivery system through advocacy, education and research.
• Maternal and Child Care


  • Midwifery
  • Community Health Educator
  • Outreach Specialist
• Mental Healthcare


  These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills. These include cognitive and psychosocial development, promotion of healthy self-esteem through feelings and anger management and identifying warning signs or red flags of learning disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, stress, and bullying.
• Community Healthcare


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

  • Barangay or Community Health Work
  • Rural Sanitary Inspection
• Environment 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. These include monitoring the quality of environment and impact of human activities on ecosystems, and developing strategies for restoring ecosystems.
• Dental Health


  Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and facial pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, other diseases and disorders that affect the oral cavity, and risk factors for oral diseases which include unhealthy diet, tobacco use, harmful alcohol use, and poor oral hygiene.
• Occupational Safety

  Careers in this path are related to the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. These include protecting workers from sickness, disease, and injury arising from possible hazards of their employment and workplace.
• Occupational Health and Safety Technician

  • Health Inspector
  • Industrial Hygienist
• Emergency Medical Services


  People assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care. Their skills include first-aid procedures, emergency medical treatment and transport of patients, rapid emergency medical response and immediate medical attention.
• Emergency Medical Services

  • Paramedic
• Nutrition - specialist this area find ways to balance individuals food and nutrition
• Drug prevention and control - people whose oversees revolve around this area seek to to reduce community and individuals probies telated to alcohol and drug abuse
• Dental Health

  Dental Hygiene

  Dental Nursing

  Dental Support