Preventive Medicine Physicians

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