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Job Description
Apply knowledge of general preventive medicine and public health issues to promote health care to groups or individuals, and aid in the prevention or reduction of risk of disease, injury, disability, or death. May practice population-based medicine or diagnose and treat patients in the context of clinical health promotion and disease prevention.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1069.09
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Preventive Medicine Physicians”.
Also Known As…
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Residency Director
- Regional Medical Director
- Public Health Physician
- Public Health Officer
- Public Health Director
- Primary Clinician
- Preventive Medicine Physician
- Occupational Physician
- Occupational Medicine Physician
- Medical Director
- Preventive Medicine Specialist
- Preventive Medicine Officer
- Occupational Medicine Officer
- Occupational Health Physician
- Environmental Health Physician
- Aerospace Medicine Physician
Tasks for “Public Health Officer”
- Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
- Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Provide information about potential health hazards and possible interventions to the media, the public, other health care professionals, or local, state, and federal health authorities.
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Direct public health education programs dealing with topics such as preventable diseases, injuries, nutrition, food service sanitation, water supply safety, sewage and waste disposal, insect control, and immunizations.
- Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
Related Technology & Tools
- Otoscopes
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Medical protective masks
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Personal computers
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Suturing kits
- Dosimetry badges
- Hypodermic syringes
- Digital medical thermometers
- Specimen collection containers
- Medical oxygen masks
- Oxygen hoods
- Desktop computers
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Vision test equipment
- Hearing test equipment
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Emergency shower stations
- Safety glasses
- Percussion hammers
- Breathing protection equipment
- Laptop computers
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- Microsoft Office
- NetEpi
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- NCSS
- Microsoft Word
- SAS
- Epidemiological software
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- Medical surveillance software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- STATISTICA
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Email software
- OpenEpi
- Web browser software
- StataCorp Stata
- R
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Microsoft Excel
- Biostatistical software
- Scheduling software
- Database software
- SAS JMP