4th Quarter #3 Health Career Pathways

Health Career Pathways
What is 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.
Makes it easier for you to identify health
career professions
Assists you in choosing a health career

Why do I need to understand
health career pathways?
Helps you develop a plan on how to

prepare for your chosen health career
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 Counseling
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
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
7. Drug Prevention 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
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
9. Health Education
Those 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:
• Community Health Work
10. Dental Health
Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions which include chronic
mouth and facial pain, oral sore, periodontal (gum) diseases , tooth decay and tooth
loss, other disease 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 Technician
• Health Inspector
• Industrial Hygiene
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
Activity #3: 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
B. Based on Activity 3, 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 ? Why?
4. Why is it important to understand the different career pathways in
health?

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What is career pathways?

Assists you in choosing a health career

Helps you develop a plan on how to

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