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Health
Quarter 4 – Module 4b:
Professional Health Career Planning;
Health Pathways

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MAPEH – Grade 10
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 4 – Module 4b: Professional Health Career Planning; Health Pathways
Second Edition, 2021

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 What I Need to Know

It is a public information that medical care is perhaps the most useful industry
among any remaining calling. Concluding one's profession will clearly take you to a
condition of safety and security.

There are various sorts of medical care suppliers, experts, and experts where
you can look over. These callings might be arranged in different ways, and it is for you
to conclude which one is best for you.

Alongside clinical callings, there are many partnered wellbeing callings which
complete the labor force in adding to the absolute consideration of patients, backing
to medical services experts, and the productive activity of medical care associations.

In this module, you will gain proficiency with the parts of health career pathways
and other significant issues relating to medical care calling and experts as you make
your own career/profession plan.

What I Know

Answer the Pre- Test below in your Health notebook. Make sure you make no
unnecessary marks on the pages of this module.
PRE-ASSESSMENT

List 3 examples of health careers that are available in your

school/community/country for each health career pathways. Use your MAPEH/Health
notebook in accomplishing this task.
Health Career Pathways Health Career

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 5.
4. Why is it important to understand the different career pathways?

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 What’s In
Medical and Allied Health Professions

The medical community could be a group of people qualified to practice

medicine. Allied health professions, on the opposite hand, are lines of labor that also
accommodate healthcare, but are distinct from medicine. they need distinct and
specialized knowledge and skills that actively work with people accessing health and
disability that are offered services across a spread of settings. These professions
include clinical laboratory or medical technology, physical therapy, occupational
therapy, dietetic services, medical record personnel, radiologic services, speech
language pathology and audiology, and respiratory therapy. Allied health
professionals provide services and have interaction in activities which include:
a. Prevention
b. Assessment/evaluation
c. Identification
d. Treatment
e. Rehabilitation/habilitation
f. Advocacy
g. Promotion of health and well-being
h. Education
i. Research

What’s New
Allied Health Professions Overview

The Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions defines allied health as

the segment of the health care field “that delivers services involving the identification,
evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders; dietary and nutrition services;
and rehabilitation and health systems management.”

There are five million allied health care providers in the United States, who work
in more than 80 different professions and represent approximately 60% of all health
care providers. The number of allied health care providers is likely to grow as jobs in
the health care industry will grow from 15.6 million to 19.8 million between 2010 and
2020. An increasing number of those jobs will require people with bachelor’s and
graduate degrees.

Some allied health care providers work collaboratively with other providers,
including physicians, nurses, dentists, and pharmacists. They may play roles in
evaluating and assessing a patient’s needs, keeping the physician and others

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informed of the patient’s progress and caring for the patient. Others work
independently as specialists in exercise, nutrition, health education, speech, and daily
function.

The allied health professions fall into two broad categories: technicians
(assistants) and therapists/technologists. Technicians are trained to perform
procedures, and their education lasts less than two years. They are required to work
under the supervision of technologists or therapists. Cardiovascular technicians,
ophthalmic medical technicians and medical assistants are examples of careers in this
category.

The educational process for therapists or technologists is more intensive and

includes acquiring procedural skills. In addition, students learn to evaluate patients,
diagnose conditions, develop treatment plans, and understand the rationale behind
various treatments to judge their appropriateness and potential side effects.
Educational curricula teach students to evaluate patients’ responses to therapy and
make appropriate decisions about continued treatment or modification of treatment
plans. Anesthesiologist assistant, neurodiagnostic technologist and pathologists’
assistant are three examples of allied health careers in this category.

The following professions are included in allied health:

• Athletic training • Nuclear medicine technology

• Audiology • Occupational therapy
• Cardiovascular perfusion technology • Physical therapy
• Cytotechnology • Physician assistant
• Dental hygiene • Radiation therapy technology
• Diagnostic medical sonography • Radiography
• Dietetics • Rehabilitation counseling
• Emergency medical sciences • Respiratory therapy
• Health administration • Respiratory therapy technology
• Health information management • Speech-language pathology
• Medical technology
https://explorehealthcareers.org/field/allied-health-professions/

What is It
Health Career Pathways
1. Disease Prevention and Control
- Primarily focusing on communicable and noncommunicable diseases.
Incorporates immunization, screening of babies, promotion of
breastfeeding, newborn child infections prevention, juvenile medical care,
and life skills.

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 Sample careers:
Community Health Work
Education and Research

2. Personal Healthcare
- Perform medical services related errands in private consideration level.
These incorporate checking patients; controlling and aiding individual
consideration and hygiene; performing housekeeping obligations; and
exhorting clients on related medical care issues like baby care, cleanliness,
and nourishment.

3. Maternal and Childcare

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

Sample Careers:
Midwifery
Community Health Educator
Outreach Specialist

4. Mental Healthcare
- Clinical experts who have some expertise in managing relational and
intrapersonal connections and fundamental life skills. Incorporates mental
and psychosocial development, advancement of solid confidence through
sentiments, and recognizing cautioning signs or warnings of learning
disorders, for example, ADHD, uneasiness, temperament problems, 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 Inspector

6. Environmental Healthcare Management

- Includes 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

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 Hazardous and solid waste management
Environmental noise control
Radiological assessment

7. Drug Prevention and Control

- Careers that 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. Includes meal planning, food
preparation and economics.

Sample Careers:
Clinical Dietetics
Food and Nutrition Management
Public Health Nutrition
Education and Research

9. Health Education
- Advances medical care and training health workers on overseeing change
in medical services. Includes surveying individual and local area needs,
planning, implementing, and assessing health programs. Advancing the
comprehension of different health-related practices and coordinates health
education services.
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Sample Careers:
Education and Research
Community Health Work

10. Dental Health

- Deal with various oral conditions which includes 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.

Sample Careers:
Dental Hygiene
Dental Nursing
Dental Health Support

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11. Occupational Safety
- Career that is connected with safety, wellbeing of people, and assistance of
individuals occupied with work or business. Incorporates shielding laborers
from infection, sickness, and injury emerging from potential perils of their
business and working environment.
Sample Careers:
Occupational Health and Safety Technician
Health Inspector
Industrial Hygienist

12. Emergency Medical Services

- Work specializing in out-of-hospital medical care. Skills include first-aid
procedures, emergency medical treatment and transport of patients, rapid
emergency medical responses and immediate medical attention.

Sample Careers:
Emergency Medical Aid
Paramedic

What’s More
Allied health is an umbrella term
used to allude to different wellbeing disciplines
that are designed for upgrading and keeping up
with the prosperity of their customer. Their
primary obligation is to help the customer's
sound way of life and autonomy, regardless of
whether physical, mental, mental, or social.
Unified wellbeing experts work across the range,
from essential to intense consideration. They
play a huge part in dealing with individuals with
inabilities.

Recent post online of Jobstreet.com

states that there are about 2,685 jobs that are
open in the country. This is an indication that
health sector in the country needs workers to be https://bit.ly/3FnLauP
in the service. Some of these are as follow: MCNP-Accessed January 13, 2022

Project Site Nurse Corporate Nurse

Nurse 1 Medical Coder
Company Nurse Staff Nurse
Charting/QA Coordinator (RN) Homecare Nurse
Medical Claims Analysts Training Associate
Personal Healthcare Assistant Ophthalmic Nurse
Facilitator (Tiering and Screening) Renal Nurse
CDI Specialist (DRG Auditor/Clinical Validator) Dialysis Nurse

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 Prior to this pandemic, the demand for health professionals really needs to be
filled up, since this is one of the most essential sectors in the government that ensures
untiring service to people. With this current situation, our country is facing badly the
demand that grows double or triple since human resource on health is of shortage.
Facilities and equipment on health are very exhausted and not enough to cover all
demands. What could be the best strategy to strengthen the need of this time? Well,
based on this illustration, something must be done in both parties, the government,
and the people.

https://bit.ly/2PrGIHw

The median, the maximum, the minimum, and the range

• Salary Range
Health and Medical salaries in Philippines range from 13,900 PHP per month
(minimum average salary) to 199,000 PHP per month (maximum average
salary, actual maximum is higher)

• Median Salary
The median salary is 71,900 PHP per month, which means that half (50%) of
people working in Health and Medical are earning less than 71,900 PHP while
the other half are earning more than 71,900 PHP. The median represents the
middle salary value. Generally speaking, you would want to be on the right side
of the graph with the group earning more than the median salary.
• Percentiles
Closely related to the median are two values: the 25th and the 75th percentiles.
Reading from the salary distribution diagram, 25% of people working in Health
and Medical are earning less than 38,600 PHP while 75% of them are earning
more than 38,600 PHP. Also from the diagram, 75% of people working in Health
and Medical are earning less than 146,000 PHP while 25% are earning more
than 146,000 PHP.

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 Allied health professionals serve as the backbone of the healthcare. They
support a wide range of clinical contribution and distinctive restoration administrations
for patients; exercises going from essential to intense consideration, and in-patient or
short-term settings. They additionally serve in different abilities to help the clinical
calling.

As current medical care administrations keep on developing, the strain from

people in general, the public authority, and different partners locally to convey better
medical services support develops. In such manner, coordinated effort among doctors,
nurture, and unified wellbeing experts is a higher priority than any time in recent
memory. They should cooperate to expand their assets to give available, opportune,
and quality consideration for their patients. By working with clinical experts in the ID,
evaluation, counteraction, and treatment of sicknesses and incapacities, united
wellbeing specialists make a huge commitment to the nature of medical care
conveyance. Hence, they are a fundamental piece of the medical care framework.

What I Have Learned

Directions: Review the lessons in the module. Then write your reflection in your
MAPEH/Health notebook by completing the unfinished statements below.

I have learned that

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

I have realized that

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

I will apply
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

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 What I Can Do

Comply the activity below. Use a short bond paper.

MY HEALTH CAREER PLAN

My Career Goal/s:

Self-Assessment
What are my skills and interests?

Career Exploration
What health careers do I want to explore?
What will I do to explore the different health
careers?
https://henryfuentes.com/
Henry Fuentes, Accessed Jan. 13, 2022
Decision-Making
What health career will I choose based on my skills and interests?
What do I need to consider?

My Plan of Action
What will I do to meet my goal/s?

Self-Assessment Career Exploration

Discover your personal strengths You can explore different careers

through self-assessments (values, and work environments through
interest, personality, testing, skills, career fairs, online research,
etc. meetings, internships, alumni
connections, professional
resources.
Decision Making
Before you decide on taking a Plan of Action
career that works for you, you can
Plan achievable goals and develop
evaluate and narrow down your
strategies to reach your goals,
options through listing the pros and
organize your goals into smaller
cons, comparing your personal
steps, identify actions for each step,
strengths and interests, and
utilize helpful people and resources,
deciding which career fulfills both
review and adapt your plan
current and future goals.
regularly.

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 Assessment

Read the statements in each number carefully. Identify the Health Career Pathway
by choosing the correct answer in the box. Write your answers in your Health
notebook.

Drug Prevention and Control Environmental Health Care Management

Personal Health Care Disease and Prevention Control
Nutrition Emergency Medical services
Occupational Safety Maternal and Child Care
Dental Health Health Educational
Personal Health Care

1. Focus on communicable and non-communicable diseases

2. Health workers that deal with complex public health issues that affect women,
children, and their families.
3. Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of
the health of all community members
4. Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their
impact on patients’ health
5. Deal with various oral conditions which includes 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
6. Work specializing in out-of-hospital medical care. Skills include first-aid procedures,
emergency medical treatment and transport of patients, rapid emergency medical
responses and immediate medical attention
7. Sample Careers: Education and Research, Community Health Work
8. Sample Careers: Drug Enforcement, Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
9. Sample Careers: Occupational Health and Safety Technician, Health Inspector,
Industrial Hygienist
10. Sample Careers: Air quality monitoring, Soil science analysis, Hazardous and solid
waste management, Environmental noise control, Radiological assessment

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 Additional Activity

ME, MYSELF, MY FUTURE!

Create an artistic view of your future health career. Illustrate using a

short bond paper. The result of the above activity must be presented here.
Give a short description and explanation about your work. Narrate all the steps
you will do to prepare yourself in achieving your goal. Use your creativity with
good vision about your future.

Rubrics 10 5 3
Illustration Well-illustrated Illustrate Not relevant
character with character without illustration
exact concept concept
Creativity Makes use of all There is a few No creativity
creative creative
elements and elements and
designs designs
Narrative of steps Well structured Not so clear No given steps
step by step structured goals
goals

Answer Key

Management
Answer may vary
10. Environmental Healthcare
What’s More 9. Occupational safety
8. Drug Prevention and Control Responses may vary
What’s New 7. health Education
Additional Activity
6. Emergency Medical services
What’s In 5. Dental Health Care
4. Nutrition
What I know
3. Community and Healthcare
2. Maternal and Childcare
1. Disease and Prevention Control
Assessment
Outputs may vary
What I can Do

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References
Callo, Lualhati F, et al. 2015. "Allied Health Related Career." In Physical Education and Health 10,
Learner's Material, 131-137. Vibal Group Inc. First Edition.

Fuentes, Henry. n.d. https://henryfuentes.com. Accessed January 13, 2022.

https://henryfuentes.com/career-planning-101-basic-things-to-know-06-12889.

n.d. http://www.salaryexplorer.com. Accessed January 13, 2022.

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=171&loctype=1&job=2&jobtype=1.

n.d. https://explorehealthcareers.org. Accessed January 12, 2022.

https://explorehealthcareers.org/why-a-career-in-health/.

n.d. https://www.mcnp.edu.ph. Accessed January 13, 2022. https://www.mcnp.edu.ph/programs-

offered/.

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