Health 3-4

• Career pathways


  Cluster occupations that are grouped because of shared skills
• 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
  • Occupational Safety
  • Emergency Medical Services
• Disease Prevention and Control

  • Community Health Work
  • Education and Research
• Personal Healthcare


  • Monitoring patients
  • Administering and assisting in personal care and hygiene
  • Performing housekeeping duties
  • Advising clients on related healthcare issues like infant care, hygiene and nutrition
• Maternal and Child Care

  • Midwifery
  • Community Health Educator
  • Outreach Specialist
• Community Healthcare


  • Barangay/Community Health Work
  • Rural Sanitary Inspection
• Environmental Healthcare Management


  • Air quality monitoring
  • Soil science analysis
  • Hazardous and solid waste management
  • Environmental noise control
  • Radiological assessment
• Drug Prevention and Control


  • Drug Enforcement
  • Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
• Occupational Safety


  • Occupational Health and Safety Technician
  • Health Inspector
  • Industrial Hygienist
• Emergency Medical Services


  • Emergency Medical Aid
  • Paramedic
• Allied health professionals


  Trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner
• Health care practitioner

  Independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the body
• Health care provider

  Trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner
• Therapists or technologists

  Have a more intensive training, which includes acquiring procedural skills
• Orthoptist

  • Investigates, diagnoses and treats defects of binocular vision and abnormalities related to eye movement
• Music therapist

  • Uses music within a therapeutic relationship to address a client's needs
• Audiologist

  • Identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related disorders
• Midwife


  • Have the expertise and skills in helping women maintain healthy pregnancies, assist in or perform childbirth delivery, and help in women's recovery process through the postpartum period
• Health educator


  • Specializes in health education and promotes the development of health knowledge, life skills, and positive attitudes toward the health and well-being of students
• Nurse


  • Trained to provide care for people who are sick or injured; monitors patients' health and records symptoms, assists physicians during examinations and treatment, and administers medications
• Health career orientation helps you to: evaluate and assess such factors as personal needs, interests and skills, provide an opportunity to identify and explore health careers, learn about the duties and responsibilities of health professionals, acquire an awareness of a wide variety of educational training and resources for both academic and vocational fields, pursue health career pathways for future education/ training.
• Medical and Allied Health Professions: The medical profession is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine. Allied health professions, on the other hand, are lines of work that still deal with the whole-person care of patients, support to healthcare professionals, and the efficient operation of healthcare organizations.
• Health Career Orientation


  An activity-based career exploration to broaden your knowledge about careers in the health field
• Health career orientation helps you to

  1. Evaluate and assess personal needs, interests and skills

  2. Identify and explore health careers

  3. Learn about the duties and responsibilities of health professionals

  4. Acquire an awareness of educational training and resources for academic and vocational fields

  5. Pursue health career pathways for future education/training
• Professions which complete the workforce in contributing to the whole-person care of patients, support to healthcare professionals, and the efficient operation of healthcare organizations

  • Medical professions
  • Allied health professions
• 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. They have distinct and specialized knowledge and skills that actively work with people accessing health and disability that are offered services across a range of settings.
• Allied health professions

  • Clinical laboratory or medical technology
  • Physical therapy
  • Occupational therapy
  • Dietetic services
  • Medical record personnel
  • Radiologic services
  • Speech-language pathology and audiology
  • Respiratory therapy
• Allied health professionals

  Healthcare practitioners with formal education and clinical training credentials through certification, registration and/or licensure. They collaborate with physicians and other members of the healthcare team to deliver high quality patient care services for the identification, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disabilities, and disorders.
• Allied health professionals categorized into

  • Technicians
  • Therapists/Technologists
• Technicians


  Those who undergo training to perform specific procedures. They are required to work under the supervision of technologists or therapists.
• Therapists or technologists


  Have more intensive training, which includes acquiring procedural skills. They evaluate patients, diagnose conditions, develop treatment plans, and understand the rationale behind various treatments in order to judge their appropriateness and potential side effects. They also assess patients' responses to therapy and make appropriate decisions about continued treatment or modification of treatment plans. Furthermore, they are licensed to perform these tasks.
• Services and activities provided by allied health professionals

  • 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
  • Promotion of health and well-being - the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improving their health
  • Education - the process of sharing and gaining knowledge
  • Research - the diligent inquiry or examination of data, reports, and observations in a search for facts or principles
• 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
  • Midwife
  • Nurse
  • Occupational therapist
  • Orthotist/Prosthetist
  • Paramedic
  • Pharmacist
  • Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer
  • Physical Therapist
  • Speech Language Pathologist
  • Phlebotomist
  • Radiation therapist
  • Respiratory therapist
  • Social Worker
• Allied medical professions available in other countries

  • Cardiovascular technologist
  • Clinical officer
  • Dental hygienist
  • Diagnostic medical sonographist
  • Kinesiotherapist
  • Neurophysiologist
  • Medical dosimetrist
  • Medical radiation scientist
  • Music therapist
  • Nuclear medicine technologist
  • Orthoptist
  • Pedorthist
  • Perfusionist
  • Surgical technologist
• Health Care Provider is a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability
• Health Care Practitioner/Provider is an independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the body
• Allied Health Professionals are trained healthcare providers practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner. They include pharmacists, dental hygienists, physical therapists and nurses.