Canton doctor
The Canton doctor is in Switzerland to serve the public health of a Canton and has been employed by that main or secondary.
The specific tasks of canton doctors in Switzerland differ, in some cases considerably, between the various cantons. In some cantons they run their own office or their own service, in other cantons they take on a staff function or head a department within a directorate of the cantonal administration . Depending on the size of the Canton come to them in addition tasks of a court physician, a Canton dentist, a pharmacist Canton, a school doctor and a medical officer as regards the national staff to.
The tasks based on legal decrees can be generalized into sovereign tasks, public health tasks ( health promotion , prevention, combating epidemics ) and advisory tasks ( experts ). In smaller cantons, canton doctors also take on the official medical duties , in larger cantons they are often in charge of the official doctors .