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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 Director
- Primary Clinician
- Preventive Medicine Physician
- Occupational Physician
- Occupational Medicine Physician
- Medical Director
- Public Health Officer
- Preventive Medicine Specialist
- Preventive Medicine Officer
- Occupational Medicine Officer
- Occupational Health Physician
- Environmental Health Physician
- Aerospace Medicine Physician
Tasks for “Public Health Officer”
- 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.
- 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.
- Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
- Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Medical oxygen masks
- Digital medical thermometers
- Hypodermic syringes
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Safety glasses
- Emergency shower stations
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Dosimetry badges
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Otoscopes
- Breathing protection equipment
- Desktop computers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Suturing kits
- Hearing test equipment
- Medical protective masks
- Specimen collection containers
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Oxygen hoods
- Personal computers
- Vision test equipment
- Percussion hammers
- Laptop computers
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Email software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- Microsoft Access
- NCSS
- SAS
- OpenEpi
- Database software
- Microsoft Excel
- SAS JMP
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- STATISTICA
- NetEpi
- Medical surveillance software
- Microsoft Office
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Epidemiological software
- Web browser software
- R
- StataCorp Stata
- Microsoft Word
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Biostatistical software
- Scheduling software