LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS

HEALTH 10- Quarter 4, Week 2

PLANNING FOR A HEALTH CAREER

Objectives

After going through this LAS, you are expected to:

1. explore the various health career paths and selects a particular health career
pathway based on personal competence and interest;
2. participate in a health career orientation program.

HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

Career pathways are clusters occupations that are grouped because of shared skills. All
pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and
training. Selecting a career pathway provides you with an area of focus, along with flexibility and
a variety of ideas to pursue for personal development.

Examples of Health Career Pathways

1. Disease Prevention and Control
People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-
communicable diseases. Their work includes immunization, screening of newborns,
promotion of breastfeeding, infant diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare and life
skills.
Sample Careers:

 Community Health Work

 Education and Research

2. Personal Healthcare
Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care
level. These include monitoring patients; administering and assisting in personal care
and hygiene; performing housekeeping duties; and advising clients on related
healthcare issues like infant care, hygiene and nutrition.
3. Maternal and Child Care
These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women,
children and their families. These include providing information on reproductive health,
family planning, healthcare of pregnant women and their children, and improvement of
health delivery system through advocacy, education and research.
Sample Careers:

 Midwifery
 Community Health Educator
 Outreach Specialist

4. Mental Healthcare
These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and
intrapersonal relationships and life skills. These include cognitive and psychosocial
development, promotion of healthy self-esteem through feelings and anger management
and identifying warning signs or red flags of learning disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety,
mood disorders, stress, and bullying.
Sample Careers:

 Social Work
 Clinical Psychology
 Psychiatry
 Guidance Counselling

5. Community Healthcare
Specialist 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

6. Environmental Healthcare Management

These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the
physical,chemical, biological, social and psychological factors in the surrounding
environment. These include monitoring the quality of environment and impact of human
activities on ecosystems, and developing strategies for restoring ecosystems.
Sample Careers:

 Air quality monitoring

 Soil science analysis
 Hazardous and solid waste management
 Environmental noise control
 Radiological assessment

7. 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
 Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

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8. Nutrition
Specialists in this area find ways to balance individual’s 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
 Education and Research

9. Health Education
Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of healthcare and training
of health workers on managing change in healthcare. Their work involves assessing
individual and community needs, planning, implementing and evaluating health
programs, promoting the understanding of various health-related behaviors plus
coordinating health education services.
Sample Careers:

 Education and Research

 Community Health Work

10. Dental Health

Dental health workers deal with various conditions which include chronic mouth
and facial pain, oral sores, 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.
Sample Careers:

 Dental Hygiene
 Dental Nursing
 Dental Health Support

11. Occupational Safety

Careers in this path are related to the safety, health and welfare of people
engaged in work or employment. These include protecting workers from sickness,
disease, and injury arising from possible hazards of their employment and workplace.
Sample Careers:

 Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

 Health Inspector
 Industrial Hygienist

12. Emergency Medical Services

People assigned in this work specialize in out- of- hospital medical care. Their skills
include first-aid procedures, emergency medical treatment and transport of patients,
rapid emergency medical response and immediate medical attention.
Sample Careers:

 Emergency Medical Aid

 Paramedic

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HEALTH CAREER ORIENTATION PROGRAM
A Health Career Orientation Program is an activity-based career exploration to broaden
your knowledge about careers in the health field. 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.

Learning Activities
General Directions: Work on Activities 1-2 on a separate sheet of paper. Don’t forget to write
your name on the top portion of your paper.

Activity 1. HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS

A. List 3 examples of health career provided /available in your school/community/country for
each health career pathways. Use the table below for your answers.

Health Career Pathways Health Career

1.
2.
3.

B. Based on Activity 1-A, answer these questions:

1. What health careers are commonly available in your school, community and country?
2. What type of health career/s do you think is needed in our country? Explain why?
3. Which health career pathways do you think our government should give priority?
Choose five (5).
4. Why is it important to understand the different career pathways in health?

Activity 2. TIME TO DECIDE

Directions: List down three health careers that interest you the most. Identify the pros and cons
of each career.

Health career that interest What are the PROS? What are the CONS?
me
1.
2.
3.

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Answer these questions:

1. Which health career is best aligned with your values, interests and skills? Are they any risks?
Are you willing to take them? Why?
_________________________________________________________________________

2. Which health career fulfils both your current and future goals?
_________________________________________________________________________

3. What health career will you choose that will help you create the life you want to live doing the
work you will love to do?
_________________________________________________________________________

Activity 3. HEALTH CAREER ORIENTATION

Directions: Participate in a Health Career Orientation Program in your school/ community.

Listen to all the guest speakers, take note and complete the table.

Questions Speaker
1. What is this person’s career?

2. What are the requirements for the career?

3. Write down the qualities that made them

successful in their chosen career.

4. Name two interests and two abilities which

can be seen.

5. What have you learned?

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Directions: Complete the following details below about your realization on Planning for
a Health Career. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

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REFLECTION
ANSWERS MAY VARY
ACTIVITY 2 :TIME TO DECIDE
ANSWERS MAY VARY
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ACTIVITY 3: HEALTH CAREER ORIENTATION
ANSWERS MAY VARY
ACTIVITY 1 :
HEALTH CAREER PATHWAYS
ANSWERS MAY VARY
Answer Key
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