PREOCCMED

Description

<p>Preventive Medicine Officers provide Force Health Protection for operational and shore-based personnel deployed throughout the world by identifying and mitigating the risk to health from both natural and manmade threats. Conduct surveillance to identify, evaluate, monitor, and respond to diseases, injuries, and environmental factors that threaten human health. Provide consultation, training and supervision for immunization, and clinical public health programs. Develop and disseminate policy to preserve and protect the health of service members, family members, and beneficiaries. Serve as Public Health Emergency Officer (PHEOs) supporting installation Commanders and assisting with responding to public health emergencies.</p> <p>Occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) is a medical specialty that focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness, and disability along with the promotion of health and productivity for workers, their families, and communities. The specialty includes individual patient care and population health management. It is generally considered to be a preventive medicine subspecialty within public health. Training in OEM prepares physicians to obtain certification by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.</p> Navy OEM provides technical services in occupational and environmental medicine, radiation health, and occupational audiology to the Fleet. It provides mission critical products and clinical services which directly contributes to readiness and mission assuredness. The OEM Department at Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command publishes the authoritative guide for mandated occupational medical surveillance and certification programs and provides health care professionals with integral tools to complete all examinations in compliance with Federal, DOD, and Navy requirements.