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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”
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- 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.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- 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.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- 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.
- Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
- 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.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Otoscopes
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- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Desktop computers
- Suturing kits
- Laptop computers
- Oxygen hoods
- Hypodermic syringes
- Safety glasses
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Percussion hammers
- Dosimetry badges
- Emergency shower stations
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical oxygen masks
- Personal computers
- Medical protective masks
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Vision test equipment
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Digital medical thermometers
- Microsoft Word
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Epidemiological software
- STATISTICA
- Email software
- Web browser software
- SAS
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Database software
- Insightful S-PLUS
- NCSS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Medical surveillance software
- OpenEpi
- R
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- Scheduling software
- Biostatistical software
- NetEpi
- Microsoft Access
- StataCorp Stata
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Microsoft Office
- SAS JMP