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Public Health Physician
OFO Code: 221103
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 221103
- Occupation
- Public Health Physician
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2211 · Generalist Medical Practitioners
Official description
Generalist medical practitioners diagnose, treat and prevent illness, disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments and maintain general health in humans through application of the principles and procedures of modern medicine. They do not limit their practice to certain disease categories or methods of treatment, and may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals families and communities.
More official OFO detail
- Ordering laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures and analysing findings to determine the nature of disorders or illnesses
- Recording patients' medical information and history and exchanging information with specialist practitioners and other health workers as required for continuing medical care;
- Providing referrals to patients and families for specialised care in hospitals, rehabilitation centres or other types of health care centres
- Performing surgery and other clinical procedures
- Providing continuing medical care for patients including prescribing, administering, counselling on and monitoring curative treatments and preventive measures
- Conducting physical examinations of patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status
- Identifying, managing and providing referrals for complications before, during and after childbirth
- Advising individuals, families and communities on health, nutrition and lifestyle which aid prevention or treatment of disease and disorders
- Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities to meet legal and professional requirements
- Conducting research in human health and medical services and disseminating the findings such as through scientific reports
- Planning and participating in programs designed to prevent the occurrence and spread of common diseases
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.