Presentation 1 Health

FIX ME!
NPALNGIN ORF A
HATEHL ARERCR
UNIT 4: PLANNING FOR A HEALTH CAREER
What are the components and steps in
making a health career plan?
1. Self Assessment
Discover your personal
strengths through self-
assessments (values,
interests, personality,
testing, skills, etc.
2. Career Exploration
You can explore different
careers and work environments
through career fairs, online
research, meetings, internships,
alumni connections,
professional resources
3. Decision Making
Before you decide on taking a career
that works for you, 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.
4. 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
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.
Why Do You Need to Understand
Health Career Pathways?
• Makes it easier for you to identify
health career professions
• Assists you in choosing a health career
• Helps you develop a plan on how to
prepare for your chosen health career
What are 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
career pathways?
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.
career pathways?
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
career pathways?
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 Counseling
career pathways?
5. 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
career pathways?
6. 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. 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
career pathways?
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
career pathways?
8. 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
• Education and Research
career pathways?
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
career pathways?
10. Dental Health
Dental health workers 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.
Sample Careers:
• Dental Hygiene
• Dental Nursing
• Dental health support
career pathways?
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 Technician
• Health Inspector
• Industrial Hygienist
career pathways?
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
Medical and Allied Health Professions
The medical profession is a group of

individuals qualified to practice
medicine. Allied health professions, on
the other hand, are lines of work that
still deal with healthcare, but are
distinct from medicine.
Who are the medical and allied
health professionals?
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.
These professions may be categorized
into either technicians or
Therapists/Technologists. Technicians are
those who undergo training to perform
specific procedures. They are required to
work under the supervision of technologists
or therapists.
Health Care Provider- a

person who helps
identify, prevent, or treat
an illness or disability.
Health Care Practitioner/Provider-
an 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 provide services
and engage in activities which include:
a. prevention - keep illness or injury from
happening
b. assessment/evaluation - appraisal of the
condition based on the patient’s subjective
report
c. identification/diagnosis - analysis based on
signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings
d. treatment - management and care of a patient or the
combating of disease or disorder
e. rehabilitation/habilitation - treatment designed to
recover from injury, illness, or disease towards a normal
condition as possible
f. advocacy - a method by which patients, their families,
attorneys, health professionals, and citizens’ groups can
work together to develop programs that ensure the
availability of high-quality healthcare for a community
g. promotion of health and well-being - the process of
enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants, and thereby improving their health
h. education - the process of sharing and gaining knowledge
i. research - the diligent inquiry or examination of data,
reports, and observations in a search for facts or principles
What are the allied health professions that
we presently have in the Philippines?
These are the common allied

health professionals practicing
in the country with available
education and professional
training.
1. Audiologist – identifies
and rehabilitates hearing
impairments and related
disorders
1. Audiologist
2. Chiropractor - diagnoses and

treats neuromuscular disorders,
with emphasis on treatment
through manual adjustment
and/or manipulation on the spine.
2. Chiropractor
3. Clinical psychologist
- assesses, diagnoses,
treats and helps prevent
mental disorders
3. Clinical psychologist
4. Dietitian / Nutritionist
- promotes good health
through proper diet and
treatment of diseases
4. Dietitian / Nutritionist
5. Emergency Medical Technician – also

known as ambulance technician; responds
quickly to any emergency and life-threatening
situation to immediately treat serious injuries,
physical or mental trauma to increase a
patient’s chances of survival
5. Emergency Medical Technician
6. Guidance Counselor - assists

students with personal, family,
education, and career decisions and
concerns; also helps them develop job-
finding skills and other life skills needed
to prevent and deal with problems.
6. Guidance Counselor
7. Health Educator - specializes in
health education and promotes the
development of health knowledge,
life skills, and positive attitudes
toward the health and well-being of
students.
7. Health Educator
8. Massage Therapist - performs the
scientific manipulation of the soft tissues
of the body for the purpose of normalizing
those tissues; uses manual techniques
that include applying fixed or movable
pressure on affected parts of the body.
8. Massage Therapist
9. Medical assistant – performs,
under the direction of a physician,
various routine administrative and
nontechnical clinical tasks in
hospitals, clinics, and other similar
facilities.
9. Medical assistant
10. Medical technologist – performs a variety
of tasks on body fluids, from simple blood tests
to more complex tests to uncover
abnormalities in the body, and underlying
causes of illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS,
diabetes, and cancer which are not easily
detected through physical examination.
10. Medical technologist
11. Midwife - professionals with the
expertise and skills in helping women
maintain healthy pregnancies, assist in
or perform childbirth delivery, and
help in women’s recovery process
through the postpartum period.
11. Midwife
12. Nurse - trained to provide care for
people who are sick or injured;
monitors patients’ health and records
symptoms, assists physicians during
examinations and treatment, and
administers medications.
12. Nurse
13. Occupational therapist - uses
purposeful activity and interventions to
maximize the independence and health of
any client who is limited by physical injury
or illness, cognitive impairment,
psychosocial dysfunction, mental illness, or
learning disability.
13. Occupational therapist
14. Orthotist/Prosthetist
– makes and fits
prosthetics or artificial
parts for the human body.
14. Orthotist/Prosthetist
15. Paramedic - gives

emergency medical treatment
or assists medical
professionals in emergency
situations.
15. Paramedic
16. Pharmacist - prepares and dispenses

medication prescribed by licensed health
professionals; also provides information to
patients regarding drugs, and consults
with healthcare professionals on
advances in drugs or Medicine.
16. Pharmacist
17. Radiologic
Technologist/Radiographer - healthcare
professionals who perform imaging
procedures, such as x-ray examinations,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans
and Computed Tomography (CT) scans
(health careers.org)
17. Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer
18. Physical Therapist -
examines, evaluates, and treats
physical impairments through use
of special exercise, application of
heat or cold, and other physical
modalities.
18. Physical Therapist
19. Speech Language

Pathologist - diagnoses and
treats patients with
functional and organic speech
defects and disorders.
19. Speech Language Pathologist
20. Phlebotomist -
professionals with special
training in phlebotomy or
drawing blood from patients.
20. Phlebotomist
21. Radiation therapist - administers
radiation therapy services to patients
and observes patients during
treatment; other duties may include
tumor localization, patient follow-up,
patient education, and record keeping.
21. Radiation therapist
22. Respiratory therapist - specializes
in the promotion of optimum
cardiopulmonary function and health;
regularly deals with various chronic
respiratory diseases, such as asthma
and emphysema.
22. Respiratory therapist
23. Social Worker - investigates, treats,
and gives aid to people with social problems
and helps people with mental illness,serious
health conditions, financial difficulties,
substance abuse problems, domestic or
child abuse, unwanted pregnancy and other
social problems.
23. Social Worker
There are also allied medical professions whose
specialized training is available in other countries.
1. Cardiovascular technologist -
uses imaging technology to help
physicians diagnose patients with
cardiac (heart) and peripheral
vascular (blood vessel) ailments.
1. Cardiovascular technologist
2. Clinical officer - performs general
medical duties such as the diagnosis and
treatment of disease and injury,
recommendation and interpretation of
medical tests, performance of routine
medical and surgical procedures,
and referral of patients to other practitioners.
2. Clinical officer
3. Dental hygienist - specializes in

the removal of calcaneus deposits
and stains from patients’ and
provides additional services and
information on prevention of oral
diseases.
3. Dental hygienist
4. Diagnostic medical
sonographist - uses ultrasonic
imaging devices to produce
diagnostic images, scans, videos, or
3D volumes of patients’ anatomy.
4. Diagnostic medical sonographist

5. Kinesiotherapist - develops
and monitors exercise programs to
help people regain muscle strength
and function lost due to injury or
disease.
5. Kinesiotherapist
6. Neurophysiologist - specializes
in the diagnosis of conditions
affecting the nervous system such
as neuromuscular diseases,
epilepsy, and nerve entrapments.
6. Neurophysiologist
7. Medical dosimetrist - designs
treatment plans for patients by means of
computer and/or manual computation to
determine a treatment field technique that
will deliver the prescribed radiation dose
while taking into consideration the dose-
limiting structures.
7. Medical dosimetrist
8. Medical radiation scientist -

performs complex diagnostic
imaging studies on patients and
plans and administers radiation
treatments.
8. Medical radiation scientist

9. Music therapist - uses music within

a therapeutic relationship to address a client’s
needs, such as facilitating movement and
physical rehabilitation, motivating the client to
cope with treatment, providing emotional
support, such as an outlet for expressing their
feelings through music.
9. Music therapist
10. Nuclear medicine technologist -

performs imaging procedures using radioactive
drugs and materials to make diagnostic
evaluations of the anatomic or physiologic
conditions of the patient’s body, and facilitates
therapy with the use of unsealed radioactive
sources.
11. Orthoptist - investigates,

diagnoses and treats defects of
binocular vision and abnormalities
related to eye movement; involves
seeing patients of all ages from
infants to the elderly.
11. Orthoptist
12. Pedorthist - are foot orthotic

and orthopedic footwear experts
trained in the assessment of lower
limb anatomy and muscle and joint
function.
12. Pedorthist
13. Perfusionist - assists in

performing procedures that involve
extracorporeal circulation, such as
during open-heart surgery or
hypothermia.
13. Perfusionist
14. Surgical technologist -

a member of the surgical
team who serves as a
scrub technician or as a
14. Surgical technologist

A Health Career Orientation
It 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
Health career orientation helps
you to:
• 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

Presentation 1 Health

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Presentation 1 Health

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

FIX ME!

The medical profession is a group of

Health Care Provider- a

These are the common allied

2. Chiropractor - diagnoses and

5. Emergency Medical Technician – also

6. Guidance Counselor - assists

15. Paramedic - gives

16. Pharmacist - prepares and dispenses

19. Speech Language

3. Dental hygienist - specializes in

4. Diagnostic medical sonographist

8. Medical radiation scientist -

8. Medical radiation scientist

9. Music therapist - uses music within

10. Nuclear medicine technologist -

11. Orthoptist - investigates,

12. Pedorthist - are foot orthotic

13. Perfusionist - assists in

14. Surgical technologist -

14. Surgical technologist

You might also like