Health Jobs Alberta

Health jobs focus on the provision of medical services to either restore or maintain a person's good health. The main objective of health job holders is to ensure that their patients are physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy. Examples of health jobs in Alberta are dental health jobs and mental health jobs:

Dental health jobs

The objective of people with dental health jobs is simple: to make sure that the residents of Alberta are free from tooth decay, cavities, and oral diseases. Dental health workers practice dentistry, which is branch of medicine that deals with the care of oral health. The duties of the dental health workers, however, are not limited to diagnosing and treating oral diseases but to also teach their patients oral hygiene.

Job opportunities in dental health include working as: *dental hygienist *dental technician *dental therapist *dentist *denturist *orthodontic assistant

Public health jobs

Another popular group of health care jobs is under public health. Unlike most health care professionals, public health workers are more focused on preventing the occurrence of diseases than actually treating them. The medical services provided by those in public health jobs are non-clinical, which means that they do not give diagnose or perform surgeries like doctors do. In fact, people in the public health sector are responsible for spreading health care awareness to the members of the community; they hold disease prevention and health care seminars to teach people how to lead healthier lifestyles.

Public health positions include: *disease investigator *environmental engineer *health educator *health promotion specialist *health services research analyst *industrial hygienist *policy analyst *public health practitioner *sanitarian

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