Mapeh Quiz

• Career


  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 Careers


  • Healthcare interpreter
  • Clinical Social worker
  • Dental assistant
  • Medical assistant
  • Practical nurse
• Factors to consider when choosing a career

  • Good salary
  • Job security
  • Do work that with your interest
  • Find a health career that fits your educational plans
  • A clear path to advancement
  • Work with people (or not)
• Steps in choosing a career

  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 your options through listing the pros and cons, comparing your 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 your goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, identify actions for each step, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly
• 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
• Health Care Provider


  A person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability
• Health Care Practitioner


  An independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and 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
• Services and activities of Allied Health Professionals

  • Prevention
  • Assessment/evaluation
  • Identification/diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Rehabilitation/habilitation
  • Advocacy
• Resume


  • Includes personal information, an objective or summary statement, work experience, education, and hard and soft skills. If you have room left over, include languages, achievements and awards, extracurricular activities, and hobbies and interests
• Biodata


  A one-to-three-page document you use when applying for a job that summarizes most aspects of your life, including personal details, education, skills and work experience
• Health Career Pathways


  • Midwifery
  • Health workers
  • Community Health Workers
  • Dentist
• Health Career Pathways


  • Clusters of occupation or jobs that are grouped because of their shared skills
  • All pathways have a variety of occupations that have different levels of education, skills and training
  • Selecting a career pathway will provide you with an area of focus, and a wide array of ideas to pursue for personal development
• 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
• Disease Prevention and Control

  • Focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases
  • Work duties include immunization, newborn screening, promotion of breastfeeding, infant disease prevention, adolescent healthcare and life skills
  • Example careers: Community Health Workers, Midwifery, Education and Research
• Personal Healthcare


  • Professionals do healthcare related tasks at a personal care level
  • Includes patient monitoring, administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene, performing housekeeping duties, and teaching clients on related healthcare issues
  • Example careers: Health workers, Caregiver
• Maternal and Child care

  • Deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families
  • Teach information on reproductive health, family planning, healthcare of pregnant women and their children, and improvement of health delivery system through advocacy, education and research
  • Example careers: Community or Health Worker, Midwifery, Outreach Specialist
• Mental Healthcare


  • Concentrate on coping with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills
  • Includes cognitive and psychosocial development, promotion of self-esteem through feelings and anger management, and identifying warning signs of learning disorders
  • Example careers: Social workers, Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrist, Guidance Counselors
• Community Healthcare


  • Focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members
  • Example careers: Barangay Community Health Workers, Rural Sanitary Inspectors
• Environmental Healthcare Management


  • Study the correlation between physical, biological, social and psychological factors in the surrounding environment
  • Monitor the quality of environment, and impact of human activities on ecosystems and develop strategies for restoring ecosystems
  • Example careers: Air quality monitoring, Soil science analysis, Hazardous and solid waste management, Environmental Noise control, Radiological assessment
• Drug Prevention and Control

  • Seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through programs and policy advocacy
  • Example careers: Drug Enforcement, Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
• Nutrition


  • Find ways to balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patients health
  • Includes meal planning, food preparation, and economics
  • Example careers: Clinical Dieticians, Food and Nutrition Management, Public Health Nutritionist, Education and Research
• Health Education


  • Promote healthcare and train health workers in healthcare
  • Assess individual and community needs, plan, implement and evaluate health programs, promote and understand various health related behaviors, and coordinate health education services
  • Example careers: Education and Research, Community Health Worker
• Dental Health


  • Cater to various oral conditions including chronic mouth and facial pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth caries, and risk factors for oral diseases
  • Example careers: Dental Hygiene, Dental Nursing, Dental Health Support
• Services and activities provided by allied health professionals

  • Prevention
  • Assessment/evaluation
  • Identification/diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Rehabilitation/habilitation
  • Advocacy
• Prevention


  Keeps illness or injury from happening
• Assessment/evaluation


  Based on the patient's report
• Identification/diagnosis


  Based on signs, symptoms and lab findings
• Treatment


  Management and care of a patient on disease or disorder
• Rehabilitation/habilitation


  Treatment to let the patient recover from injury, illness, or disease
• Advocacy


  Develop programs that ensure the availability of high-quality healthcare for a community