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.Occupational Safety and Health Council.Serves as member on the base Occupational Safety and Health Council.Environmental Health Assessment/EducationPH officers provide assistance in performing human health risk assessments and health risk communication concerning potential environmental hazards, e.g., contaminated well water at a hazardous waste site, etc.This can include environmental epidemiology, public education at Restoration Advisory Boards or public meetings, or assisting with risk communication in publicationsImmunizationsUnder the Objective Medical Group, some PH flights include the immunization section.This will vary from facility to facility.If Immunizations is included under the Public Health Flight,the PHO has oversight responsibility for this section.Disaster ResponsePH personnel support the medical treatment facility (MTF) and wing during wartime and natural disasters.This support includes providing recommendations and assistance on patient, medical facility, and food decontamination procedures, the prevention and control of communicable, foodborne, water-borne, and vector-borne diseases, and the unnecessary loss or destruction of food supplies.Medical IntelligenceIn accordance with AFI 41-106 , Medical Readiness Program, the Medical Intelligence Officer (MIO) is the PHO, or in the absence of a PHO, the senior PH craftsman.The MIO provides pre-deployment and post-deployment health risk information to deploying personnel.The MIO gathers health risk information through pre-deployment site surveys, contact with AFMIC, and through information gathered from after-action reports, DISRAPS, MAJCOM information, etc.The MIO also maintains a file of current health risk information for common deployment sites which can be used by aeromedical personnel to plan for deployments or to brief aircrews.Consultant ServicesPH personnel provide consultant services to Air Force Reserves (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG) installations and active duty bases without a permanently assigned PHO.A support agreement should exist between the MTF and the requesting unit.SUMMARYPublic health and flight medicine personnel maintain a very close professional relationship.The full support of the Chief of Aeromedical Services for PH programs is required for a successful public health program.Public health personnel are not trained to perform clinical procedures, and they cannot provide treatment; therefore, procedures such as vital signs, laboratory tests, or administration of medications must be performed by qualified personnel within the MTF.The PH medical consultant must actively participate and support PH in monitoring the communicable disease program, the occupational health program, the food safety program, and the medical surveillance of hospital employees, childcare providers, foodhandlers, barbers, and beauticians.The consultant periodically needs to visit the public health flight and accompany PH personnel on routine sanitary evaluations of food facilities and public facilities, as well as on visits to industrial shops.These visits enable the consultant to have an appreciation for good programs and facilities, as well as being able to recognize problems and support PH's recommendations for correcting these problems.Public health needs the consultant's total support in managing and monitoring all aspects of these programs.PH personnel and other members of the aerospace medicine team must work closely together to solve public health problems and promote the health and well being of Air Force personnel.REFERENCESAFI 41-106 Medical Readiness ProgramAFI 48-101 Aerospace Medical OperationsAFI 48-102 Medical Entomology ProgramAFI 48-105 Control of Communicable DiseasesAFI 48-106 Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted DiseasesAFI 48-109 USAF Epidemiological ServicesAFI 48-115 Tuberculosis Detection and Control ProgramAFI 48-116 Food Safety ProgramAFI 48-132 Immunodeficiency Virus ProgramAFI 134-701 Child DevelopmentAFI 148-117 Public Facility SanitationAFOSH Standard 161-17 Air Force Occupational Safety and Health ProgramAFOSH Standard 161-21 Hazard Communication Standard20-7
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