A career is an occupation or profession that requires special training.
Career Planning.
1.Self Assessment
3. Career Exploration
3. Decision making
4. Plan of Action
Career pathways are clusters occupations that are grouped because of shared skills.
Health Career Examples: Disease Prevention & Control (community Health Work) ; Personal Healthcare; Maternal and Childcare (midwifery) ; Mental Healthcare (social work) ; Community Healthcare (Barangay/community Health work) ; Environmental Healthcare Management (air Quality monitoring); Drug Prevention and Control(drug enforcement) ; Nutrition (public health nutrition)
Disease Prevention and control (Community Health Work)
People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Personal Health care
Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level.
Maternal and Child Care (Midwifery)
These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families.
Mental Healthcare (Social work)
These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills.
Community Healthcare (Barangay/Community Health work)
Specialists this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.
These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.
Drug Prevention and control (Drug Enforcement)
People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individuals problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence based programs and policy advocacy.
Nutrition (Public Health Nutrition)
Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals food and nutrition and their inspect on patients health.