M A P E H 10

MUSIC•ARTS•PHYSICAL EDUCATION•HEALTH
Health – Grade 10
Quarter 4 – Module 2: Planning for a Health career
First Edition, 2020

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 MAPEH 10
MUSIC•ARTS•PHYSICAL EDUCATION•HEALTH

Quarter 4
Self-Learning Module 2
Planning for a Health career
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Health 10 Self-Learning Module on Planning for a Health career.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and reviewed by

educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its Officer-in-Charge
Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin, in partnership with the
City Government of Pasig through its mayor, Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers
utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning
Competencies (MELC)in developing this instructional resource.
This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent learning
activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners acquire the
needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication, Collaboration,
Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into consideration their needs and
circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of the
module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that will
help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You
also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own
learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the
tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Health 10 Self-Learning Module on Planning for a Health career! This
module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and
independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process the contents
of the learning material while being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations– This points to the set of knowledge and skills that you
will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge aboutthe lesson at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts and skills
that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson- This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up- This section summarizes the concepts and application of the

lesson.

Valuing- This partintegrates a desirable moral value in the lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the entire
module.
 EXPECTATION

In this module, the learner should be able to:

1. identify the different examples of health career pathways;

2. recognize the functions of different career;
3. explore the various health career paths and selects a particular health career pathway
based on personal competence and interest.

PRE–TEST

Direction: Arrange the jumbled letters to figure out what is identified in each sentence. Write
your answer in the space provided.

1. These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal

relationships and life skills. ENMTAL LTHEHA_____________
2. Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level.
EROSAPLN HTECHLRAEA________________
3. These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women,
children, and their families. AMERATLN AND HCLICDARE__________________
4. Specialists in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of the
health of all community members. OCMUMTIYN HTECHLRAEA____________
5. Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their
impact on patients’ health. UNRTTINOI______________
 RECAP

Direction: Match the questions on the left side with the answers on the right
___1. Designed to familiarize students with the various career A. CAREER
___2. Refers to an individual’s plan to make career choice B. HEALTH
CAREERS
___3. It is necessary to understand one’s capabilities and drawbacks. C.SELF
ASSESMENT
___4. It is an occupation or profession that requires special training D. CAREER
EXPLORATION
___5. It refers on explore different careers and work environments. E. HEALTH
CAREER PLANNING

L E S S ON

HEALTH 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.

What are 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 Counselling

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 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
• Education and Research

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 bahaviors 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

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

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

WORD HUNT: Find all these words inside the box in the grid below. They run in straight lines,

and in any direction.

Nutrition Dental Occupational Environmental Mental

Career Skills Community Healthcare Maternal

WRAP–UP

CLASSIFYING ANALOGIES
Directions: Read the analogy and decide how each word pair is related. Then choose
the correct type of analogy from the box below and write the letter on the line.

SOCIAL WORK MIDWIFERY RURAL SANITARY INSPECTION

DRUG ENFORCEMENT DENTAL HYGIENE
 1. Nutrition: Clinical Diabetes Mental HealthCare:__________
2. Health Education: Health Programs Maternal and Child care:__________
3. Mental Healthcare: Psychiatry Community Healthcare:__________
4. Personal Healthcare: Hygiene Drug Prevention and Control:__________
5. Occupational Safety: Health Inspector Dental Health:__________

VALUING

Direction: Complete the sentence based on what you have learned in the lesson.
I have learned that
_________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________.

POST TEST

Direction: Identify the answer in the following questions.

1. These are clusters occupations that are grouped because of shared skills.__________

2. Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care level.
__________

3. These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal

relationships and life skills.__________

4. People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and
individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse. __________

5. Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and their
impact on patients’ health. __________
6. This workers deal with various oral conditions which include chronic mouth and facial
pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth decay. __________

7. 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.__________

8. 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.
__________

9. The specialist in this area focus on the maintenance, protection, and improvement of
the health of all community members. __________

10. People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-
communicable diseases__________
 KEY TO CORRECTION

REFERENCES
Department of Education (DepEd). K to 12 Curriculum Guide: Physical Education and Health,
Pasig City Philippines 2015.