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Preventive Medicine Physicians
ID
work_healthcare_practitioners/preventive_medicine_physicians
Type
TASK
Children
15
Child Nodes (15)
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Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
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Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
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Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
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Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
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Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
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Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
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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.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
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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.
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Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
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Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve community health.
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Prepare preventive health reports, including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
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Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
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Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
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