Dr. Jay David Kravitz MD, MPH
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
14323 Nw Skyline Blvd Portland OR, 97231About
Jay Kravitz is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Portland, OR. Kravitz specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Kravitz participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Tulane University of Louisiana 1972
Tulane University School of Medicine 1972
Board Certification
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Quantitative bacterial examination of domestic water supplies in the Lesotho Highlands: water quality, sanitation, and village health.
- What quality standards are appropriate for rural water supplies?
- PEARLS+: Connecting Societal Forces, Social Determinants, and Health Outcomes.
- Human immunodeficiency virus seroprevalence in an occupational cohort in a South African community.
- Control of Hantavirus in the west.
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