Health: Planning for a health career

career

career

is an occupation or profession that requires special training.

Health career Planning

refers to an individual’s plan to make a career choice, growing in the chosen career or making a career shift.

1. Self assessment

2. career exploration

3. decision making

4. plan of action

What are the components and steps in making a health career plan?

Self Assessment

Discover your personal strengths through self-assessments (values, interests, personality, testing, skills, etc.)

Career Exploration

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

decision making

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

health career pathways

• are clusters occupations that are grouped because of shared skills.

• a variety of occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and training.

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.

Maternal and Child Care

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

Mental HealthCare

• specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and life skills.

• cognitive and psychosocial development, promotion of healthy self-esteem through feelings and anger management.

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

find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their impact on patients’ health. These include meal planning, food preparation and economics.

Health Education

tasked with promotion of healthcare and training of health workers on managing change in healthcare.

Dental Health

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

related to the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.

Emergency Medical Services

specialize in out-of-hospital medical care.

medical profession

is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine.

Allied health professions

are lines of work that still deal with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine.

Health Care Provider

a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability.

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.”

Allied Health Professionals

a trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician or healthcare practitioner. They include pharmacists, dental hygienists, physical therapists and nurses.

a. prevention

b. assessment/evaluation

c. identification/diagnosis

d. treatment

e. rehabilitation/habilitation

f. advocacy

g. promotion of health and well-being

h. education

i. research

Services provide by allied health professionals

1. Audiologist

2. Chriopractor

3. Clinical Psychologist

4. Dietitian / Nutritionist

5. Emergency Medical Technician

allied health professions in the Philippines

Audiologist

identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related disorders