2083X0100X — Occupational Medicine Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Preventive Medicine

Specialization

Occupational Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

Occupational medicine focuses on the health of workers, including the ability to perform work; the physical, chemical, biological, and social environments of the workplace; and the health outcomes of environmental exposures. Practitioners in this field address the promotion of health in the work place, and the prevention and management of occupational and environmental injury, illness, and disability.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

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