Health prelims

• Heath career


  is designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
• Self assessment 


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

  • You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources
• Decision making


  Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can 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
• Disease and prevention control 


  People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Their work includes immunization, screening of newborns, promotion of breastfeeding, infant diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills.
• Personal health care


  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
• Mental health care


  Sample Careers are: Social Work, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, and Guidance Counseling
• Community health care


  Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members
• Environmental health care 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
• Drug prevention and control 


  People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy.
• Nutrition 


  Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their impact on patients’ health. These include meal planning, food preparation and economics
• Health education 


  Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare. Their work involves assessing individual and community needs, planning, implementing and evaluating health programs, promoting the understanding of various health-related behaviors plus coordinating health education services.
• 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.
• 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.
• Prevention 


  keep illness or injury from happening
• Assessment/evaluation 


  appraisal of the condition based on the patient’s subjective report
• Identification/diagnosis


  analysis based on signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings
• Treatment


  management and care of a patient or the combating of disease or disorder
• Rehabilitation/habilitation 


  treatment designed to recover from injury, illness, or disease towards a normal condition as possible
• Advocacy 


  a method by which patients, their families, attorneys, health professionals, and citizens’ groups can work together to develop programs that ensure the availability of high-quality healthcare for a community