Will “Public Health Director” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
Unknown Chance of Automation
Sadly, the research paper did not provide any information about this occupation. Maybe have a look at our directory?
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
- Primary Clinician
- Preventive Medicine Physician
- Occupational Physician
- Occupational Medicine Physician
- Medical Director
- Public Health Director
- Preventive Medicine Specialist
- Preventive Medicine Officer
- Occupational Medicine Officer
- Occupational Health Physician
- Environmental Health Physician
- Aerospace Medicine Physician
Tasks for “Public Health Director”
- 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.
- Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
- 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.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- 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.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
Related Technology & Tools
- Emergency shower stations
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Vision test equipment
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Hearing test equipment
- Percussion hammers
- Oxygen hoods
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Desktop computers
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Medical oxygen masks
- Medical protective masks
- Breathing protection equipment
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Personal computers
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Otoscopes
- Dosimetry badges
- Specimen collection containers
- Hypodermic syringes
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Laptop computers
- Safety glasses
- Digital medical thermometers
- Suturing kits
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- Medical surveillance software
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Database software
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Insightful S-PLUS
- NCSS
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Microsoft Excel
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Web browser software
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- StataCorp Stata
- SAS
- STATISTICA
- Microsoft Access
- Biostatistical software
- OpenEpi
- Scheduling software
- R
- Email software
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- SAS JMP
- Epidemiological software
- NetEpi
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- Microsoft Word