Health: Planning for a health career

is an occupation or profession that requires special training.

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non- communicable diseases.

Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level.

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

• 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.

focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the health of all community members.

establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.

seek to reduce community and individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based programs and policy advocacy.

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

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

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.

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

specialize in out-of-hospital medical care.

is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine.

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

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

independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the body.”

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

Services provide by allied health professionals

allied health professions in the Philippines

identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related disorders