HEALTH MAPEH

• Career


  An occupation or profession that requires special training
• Health careers


  Careers designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
• Health career planning


  An individual's plan to make a career choice, grow in the chosen career or make a career shift
• Components and steps in making a health career plan

  1. Self - assessment

  2. Career exploration

  3. Decision making

  4. Plan of action
• Examples of health career pathways

  • Disease prevention and control
  • Personal healthcare
  • Maternal and child care
  • Mental healthcare
  • Community healthcare
  • Environmental healthcare management
• 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
• Allied health professionals


  • Healthcare practitioners with formal education and clinical training credentials through certification, registration and/or licensure
  • Provide services and engage in activities including prevention, assessment/evaluation, identification/diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation/habilitation, advocacy, promotion of health and well-being, education, and research
• Allied health professions in the Philippines

  • Audiologist
  • Chiropractor
  • Clinical psychologist
  • Dietitian/Nutritionist
  • Emergency medical technician
  • Guidance counselor
  • Health educator
  • Massage therapist
  • Medical assistant
  • Medical technologist
  • Occupational therapist
  • Midwife
  • Nurse
  • Orthotist/Prosthetist
  • Paramedic
  • Radiologic technologist/Radiographer
  • Pharmacist
  • Physical therapist
  • Speech language pathologist
  • Phlebotomist
  • Radiation therapist
  • Respiratory therapist
  • Social worker
• Why pursue a health career?

  • 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)