HEALTH Flashcards
Designed to let the students familiarize with the various careers in the medical profession and allied health services
Health Career
An occupation or profession that requires special training.
Career
Refers to individual’s plan to make career choice, growing in the chosen career or making career shift.
Career Planning
Necessary to understand one’s capabilities and drawbacks. It involves continuous learning and improvement to build and grow in the chosen career path.
Self-Assessment
Clusters of careers or occupations that aregrouped because of shared skills. All pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education, skills, and training.
Career Pathways
Before you decide on taking a career that works for you, you can evaluate and narrow down your opinions through listing the pros and cons, comparing your personal strengths and interest, and deciding which career fulfills both current and future goals.
Decision Making
You can explore different careers and work environments through career fairs, online research, meetings, internships, alumni connections, professional resources.
Career Exploration
Plan achievable goals and develop strategies to reach your goals, organize your goals into smaller steps, utilize helpful people and resources, review and adapt your plan regularly.
Plan of Action
Discover your personal strengths through ____________________. (values, interest, personality, testing, sklls, etc.)
Self-Assessment
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Finding ways to balance individuals’ food & nutrition and their impact on patients’ health.
Nutrition
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Focuses on communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Disease Prevention and Control
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Deals with various oral conditions.
Dental Health
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Establish the correlation between and among the physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding environment.
Environmental Health Care
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Seeking to reduce community & individual problems related to alcohol & drug abuse
Drug Prevention & Control
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Specialize in out-of hospital medical care.
Emergency Medical Services
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women, children & their families. Providing information on reproductive health, family planning, healthcare of pregnant women & their children.
Maternal & Child Care
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships & life skills.
Mental Healthcare
IDENTIFY THE PATHWAY:
Specialist in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, & improvement of the health of all community members.
Community Healthcare
A group of individuals qualified to practice medicine.
Medical Profession
A person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability.
Health Care 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.
Health Care Practitioner/Provider