Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine specialists are physicians who focus on the health of communities, defined populations, and individuals. They research, develop, and implement ways to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being, and to prevent disease, disability, and premature death. These specialists play a crucial role in improving public health and ensuring the well-being of individuals and communities. General Responsibilities: 1. Apply biostatistical principles and methodology 2. Apply epidemiology to population-based medicine and research 3. Manage health services including: developing, assessing, and assuring health policies, planning, implementing, directing, budgeting, and evaluating population health and disease management programs, and utilizing legislative and regulatory processes to enhance health 4. Control environmental factors that may adversely affect health 5. Control and prevent occupational factors that may adversely affect health safety 6. Promote clinical preventive medicine activities including measures to promote health and prevent the occurrence, progression, and disabling effects of disease and injury 7. Assess social, cultural, and behavioral influences on health