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

-Personal Health Care

-Nutrition
-Occupational Safety

-Dental Health

-Personal Health Care

-Environmental Health Care Management

-Disease and Prevention Control

-Emergency Medical services

-Maternal and Child Care

-Health Educational

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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