• Hospitals
• Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
• Physician Practice Offices
• Dental Practice Offices
• Offices of other Health Care Practitioners
• Home Health Care Services
• Out Patient Centers
• Other Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories

There are opportunities within the healthcare sector with full time or part time jobs, while shift work being common in such occupations as nursing. Most the jobs in healthcare are found within the public sector though some countries like South Africa have a large well developed private sector.

There is a wide variety in the types of jobs available within healthcare ranging from professional occupations, such as physicians and surgeons, dentists, registered nurses, social workers, and physical therapists, through technical occupations such as medical records and health information technicians and dental technicians to service occupations such as nursing aides, home health aides, dental assistants and medical assistants.

The wide range of healthcare jobs appeals to a variety of people with most workers having less than 4 years of university education, while practitioners dealing with the diagnostic and treatment services offered by the healthcare industry as amongst the most educated on the continent.

A common thread amongst those currently working in the healthcare industry is a strong desire to help others, genuine concern for the welfare of patients and clients, and an ability to deal with people of diverse backgrounds in stressful situations. These qualities would be useful to anyone considering a career in healthcare.

The job outlook for the healthcare industry is quite rosy, already one of the largest industry in the world and is instead expected to grow over the next decade.