health career

• a career is an occupation or profession that requires special training
• health careers are designed to familiarized with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
• health career planning refers to an individual's plan to make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career shift
• what are the components in making a health career plan?

  self assessment

  career exploration

  decision making

  plan of action
• self assessment?


  discover your personal strengths through _ (values, interests, personality, testing, skilss, etc.
• career exploration?


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


  evaluate and narrow down your options through listing your pros and cons
• plan of action?


  plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals
• why do you need to understand health career pathways?

  • makes it easier for you to identify health career professions.
  • assists you in choosing health career.
  • helps you develop a plan on how to prepare for your chosen health career.
• disease prevention and control?


  people who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases
• personal healthcare?


  professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level

  includes monitoring patients, administers and assisting in personal care and hygiene
• maternal and child care?


  complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families

  providing info on reproductive health, family planning
• mental healthcare?


  specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship and life skills

  includes cognitive and psychosocial
• community healthcare?


  focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members
• environmental healthcare management?


  establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment
• drug prevention and control?


  seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy
• nutrition?


  balance individuals' food and nutrition and their impact on patients' health
• health education?


  tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare
• dental health?


  various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and facial pain, etc.
• occupational safety?


  safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment
• emergency medical services?


  people assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care
• medical profession is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine
• allied health professionals are healthcare practitioners with formal education and clinical training credentials through certificate, registration and/or licensure
• health care provider -a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability
• health care practitioner/provider -independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the body
• allied health professionals -a trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner
• Therapists or technologists

  have more intense training, which includes acquiring procedural skills
• Prevention -keep illness or injurinjury from happening
• Assessment/evaluation

  -appraisal of the condition based on patients subjective report
• Health career orientation -an activity-based career exploration to broaden your knowledge
• rehabilitation/habilitation -treatment designed to recover from injury, illness or disease towards a normal condition as possible
• promotion of health and well-being -process of enabling people to increase control over their health & it's determinants