health

• Disease Prevention and Control - People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases.

  Sample Careers:

  •Chemist

  •Education and Research
• Personal Healthcare - Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level
• Maternal and Child Care -

  These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children and their families.

  Sample Careers:

  •Midwifery
• Mental HealthCare - These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills.

  Sample Careers:

  •Psychiatry

  •Clinical Psychology

  •Guidance Counseling
• Community Healthcare - Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.

  Sample Careers:

  •Barangay/Community Health Work

  •Rural Sanitary Inspection
• Environmental Healthcare Management - These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.

  Sample Careers:

  Air quality monitoring

  Soil science analysis
• 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.

  Sample Careers:

  Drug Enforcement
• 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.

  Sample Careers:

  •Clinical Dietetics

  Food and Nutrition Management

  Public Health Nutrition
• Health Education - Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare.

  Sample Careers:

  •Education and Research

  Health Educators
• Dental health workers - deal with various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and facial pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, and disorders that affect the oral cavity.

  Sample Careers:

  •Dental Hygiene

  •Dental Nursing
• Occupational Safety - Careers in this path are related to the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.

  Sample Careers:

  •Occupational Health and Safety Technician

  •Health Inspector

  First Aiders
• Emergency Medical Services - People assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care.

  Sample Careers:

  •Emergency Medical Aid

  •Paramedic