There’s such time comes that the first person that the patients meet in any type of care is an allied health professional. As you could observe in documentaries presented in different channels in television, it is more obvious that the issue discussed is about lack of allied health professionals especially in places not reach by modernization like the citizens that lives in high lands, forests or those place that is way too far from cities. Insufficient number of allied health professionals also means lack of health care and support, which is alarming and needed to be actioned by on those positions in our community. Allied health professionals support diagnosis, recovery, and quality of well-being, they play a critical role and are the support pillars that makes up of the healthcare team that facilitates and initiates to take care and give support for each citizen that needs health-related assistance.
In some barangays, they’re not receiving the proper health assistance and as a result, unfortunately, their disease is getting worse making their chance of survival decreases or probably not possible. Patients have complex needs, as a allied health professional, they are involved with the delivery of health or related services pertaining to the identification, evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders, dietary that is concerned in the health wellness of the patient, nutrition services offered by nutritionists, rehabilitation and health systems management, among others. Their knowledge and experience in medication gives them expertise in managing the health of their patients, their responsibilities expands not only the life of people but also capability of those people to be productive enough to contribute meaningfully to nation. Thus, the scope of allied health practice extends to the individual, the family, the community and to public education, many allied health professions specialize in the promotion of optimum function and health and also the improvement of health-related quality of life.
In Philippines, sadly, lacking of allied health professional is one of the main problem, because of the years that is needed for an aspiring student to be graduated with Medical Certification is undeniably long for about 10 years that other people choose a short course enable for them to gain salary for as soon as possible. One also of the problem is the finance, not everyone could attain or afford the tuition to be allotted in that course but as long as you want it and you heartedly pursue for it you could be it. The role of these professionals expands through years and by the time comes, in reality, it holds a wide variety of how people could be entire healthy by working out to those factors that could affect the state of health of an individual, environment, disasters, microorganisms, and self cause. We can conclude that they’re essential in one’s society to attain the economic progress that each citizen of a nation want to reach.
There are literally thousands of jobs available in the allied health field, and the demand for theses jobs will continue to grow as our needs on health care are growing. More options and choices means more people to served with and saved to. Our need or dependency to them also increases as the health problem that our society reach to its limit. Let just wait for the set of upcoming heroes of the country, and believe that our problems for now will be resolve in the future
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