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Department of Education
Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

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HEALTH
Quarter 4: Module 2

Planning for A Health Career

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Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 4 – Module 2: Planning for a Health Career
First Edition, 2020

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What I Need to Know

Learning Competencies:
• Explores the various health career paths selects a particular health career pathway
based on personal competence and interest, participates in a health career
orientation program.(H10PC-Ivc-d-3)
• Decides on an appropriate health career path. (H10PC-Ivc-d-4)

At the end of the lesson, the learner is expected to:

• explain the various health career paths selects a particular health career pathway
based on personal competence and interest, participates in a health career
orientation program. (H10PC-Ivc-d-3)
• make an appropriate health career path. (H10PC-Ivc-d-4)

What I Know
Directions: Answer the following questions and identify the Health Career Pathways.
Encircle the letter of your chosen answer.

1. This career path specializes on communicable and non-communicable diseases. Which

work include immunization, screening of new born, promotion of breastfeeding, infant
diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare
2. 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
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare
3. 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.
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare
4. 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.
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare
5. Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement health of
all community members.
A. Community l HealthCare C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Disease Prevention and Control D. Personal Healthcare

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B. Give 3 examples of Career in each path ways

1. Environmental Healthcare Management

a.
b.
c.

2. Drug Prevention and Control

a.
b.
c.
3. Nutrition
a.
b.
c.
4. Dental Health
a.
b.
c.
5. Emergency Medical Services
a.
b.
c.
What’s In

Directions: List examples of health career provider that is available in your school, community, and
country for each health career pathways.
Health Career Pathways Health Career

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What’s New

Activity 1:
Directions: Read the question carefully and answer it. Write your answer in the box
provided below.

Why Do You Need to Understand

Health Career Pathways?

Remember: Career Pathways - Clusters of careers and occupations that are grouped

What Is It

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,

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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 Counselling

5. Community Healthcare

Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement

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

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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

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 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 behaviours plus coordinating health education
services.
Sample Careers:
• Education and Research
• Community Health Work

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

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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

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

What’s More

Activity I
Directions: Answer the given questions.

1. What medical and allied health professions do you think are most needed in
your school, community, and our country? List down three and explain why.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
___________________________.

2. What medical and allied health professionals are provided in your

community?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________.

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 3. Choose five countries that you think have high demand on allied health
professionals. For each country, list down five allied health professions they need
most. Why?
4.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
________________________

Activity II
Directions: Answer the given questions.
1. Which health career fulfils both your current and future goals?
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
________________________________________.
2.What health career will you choose to help you create that life you want to live
doing the work you will love to do?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
.

What I Have Learned

Directions: Complete the statement.

I learned that ________________________________________________________________

I understand ________________________________________________________________
I will choose a ______________________________________________________________
I will plan my _______________________________________________________________

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What Can I Do

Make a scrapbook. Collect and cut pictures of different health career pathways and
paste it on a short bond paper. Use rubrics for the assessment of the output.

Rubrics on Scrapbook
Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
Organization Information Information Information The Information
is organized is organized is organized information is not only
in a very with well- but appears disorganized
well- constructed paragraphs disorganized. but
constructed, paragraph are not well inaccurate.
paragraphs, and constructed
use of information and
subheadings is factual information
and and correct. is factual.
information
is factual
and correct.
Quality of Information Information Information Information Information
Information is clearly clearly clearly has little to was nothing
rebutted to relates to relates to do with the to do with
the main the main the main main topic. the main
topic. It topic. It topic. No topic.
includes provides 1-2 details and
several supporting or example
supporting details and are given.
details and or examples.
or
examples.
Creativity Excellent Satisfactory Lacks No creativity
creativity use of creativity of the
using creativity and used of production.
various and use minimal
materials. various materials.
materials

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ASSESSMENT

Directions: Answer the following questions and identify the Health Career Pathways.
Encircle the letter of your chosen answer.

1. This career path specializes on communicable and non-communicable diseases. Which

work include immunization, screening of new born, promotion of breastfeeding, infant
diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and life skills
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

2. 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
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

3. 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.
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

4. 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.
A. Disease Prevention and Control C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Mental HealthCare D. Personal Healthcare

5. Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement health of
all community members.
A. Community l HealthCare C. Maternal and Child Care
B. Disease Prevention and Control D. Personal Healthcare

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B. Give 3 examples of Career in each path ways

3. Environmental Healthcare Management

a.
b.
c.

4. Drug Prevention and Control

a.
b.
c.
3. Nutrition
a.
b.
c.
4. Dental Health
a.
b.
c.
5. Emergency Medical Services
a.
b.
c.

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Lesson 1
What I Know
A.
1.A
2.B
3. C
4.D.
References
5.D.
B(Choose only 2)
1. Air quality monitoring, soil science analysis, hazardous and solid waste
management, Environmental Noise Control, Radiological assessment
2. Drug enforcement, Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
3. Clinical Dietetics, food and Nutrition Management, Public Health Nutrition
4. Education and Research, Community Health work
5. Dental Hygiene, Dental Nursing, Dental Health Support
What’s In
Answers May vary
What’s New
Answers May Vary
What’s More
Answers May Vary
Assessment
A.
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. A
B(Choose only 2)
1. Air quality monitoring, soil science analysis, hazardous and solid waste
management, Environmental Noise Control, Radiological assessment
2.Drug enforcement, Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
3. Clinical Dietitics, food and Nutrition Management, Public Health Nutrition
4. Education and Research, Community Health work
5. Dental Hygiene, Dental Nursing, Dental Health Support
Answer Key
References:

Department of Education(DepEd). K to 12 Curriculum Guide: Health Education.

Pasig City, Philippines 2012
Callo, Lualhati F. et al. , Camiling, Mark Kenneth S. et al, Yap, Johannsen
C. et al, Cagulang, Janeth P. et al, Doria, Jose C. et al, Deveraturda, Encarnita et al.
Grecia, Jo-Ann G.et al “Physical Education and Health “ Learner’s Material 10, Vibal
Group Inc.

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Department of Education
Schools Division of Zamboanga del Norte
Capitol Drive, Estaka, Dipolog City
Fax: (065) 908 0087 | Tel: (065) 212 5843, (065) 212 5131
zn.division@deped.gov.ph

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