health career

• career is an occupation/profession that requires special training
• health career are designed to familiarize students with the various careers in the medical profession and services
• health career pathways are clusters of occupations that are grouped of shared skills
• why do you need to understand health career pathways

  1. makes it easier for you to identify health career professions
  2. assists you in choosing a health career
• pathways

  1. disease prevention and control (public health)
  2. personal health care
  3. mental health
  4. community health
  5. environmental health
  6. nutrition and dietetics
  7. drug prevention and control
  8. health promotion (dental care)
  9. health education
  10. occupational health and safety
  11. emergency medical services
• public health focuses on communicable and non-communicable diseases
• personal health care perform healthcare-related tasks on a personal care level
• maternal child care deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children, and their families. (Midwifery, Community Health Educator, and Outreach Specialist)
• mental health are medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills.
• community health are specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.
• environmental health are health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.
• nutrition and dietetics are specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their impact on patients’ health.
• drug prevention and control are people whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse.
• health promotion (dental care) are Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions.
• health education are those who work in this field are tasked with the promotion of health care and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare.
• occupational health and safety careers in this path are related to the safety, health, and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
• emergency medical service are people assigned to this work specialize in out-of hospital medical care.