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All career pathways you have to considers the following:
1. What you like
2. What is important to you
3. What you are good at
4. Who are the people you know who may be able to help you.
--- it is also necessary to think about past decisions and experience, existing skills, ambitions for to future and
any information or advice, you need also to answer the following:
1. Do you like to care for people who are sick or help them stay well?
2. Are you interested in diseases and in how the body works?
3. Do you enjoy reading about science and medicine?
4. Would it be fun to learn first aid or volunteer at a hospital?
Disease Prevention and Control( Public Health)
Public Health- is the scientific discipline of safeguarding and enhancing the well- being of general public by
means of education, promotion of healthy ways of life, and extensive study of diseases and injury prevention
Clinical Health-entails diagnosis and treatment of disease in individual patients, public health entails
prevention, and education of the general public to help improve the overall health and reduce risks to a
population.
They focus on improving the health of individuals, families and communities:
1. Prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries
2. Surveillance of cases, and
3. Promotion of healthy behaviors,
Public health practitioners include:
1. Community and preventive medicine specialist
2. Public health nurses
3. Clinical nurse specialists
4. Dietitians
5. Environmental health officers
6. Paramedics
7. Epidemiologist,
8. Health inspectors, and others
WHO- World Health Organization
CDC- Centers Disease Control
Professions involved in Health care
1. Physicians, psychologists ,clinical officers
2. Dentists, social workers
3. Nurse, midwife ,paramedics
4. Surgeons, pharmacists, therapists
WALLY MALKOVA