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4126.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| This session on will focus on the epidemiology of injuries, including youth violence, suicide, self-injury, falls and transportation related injuries. A presentation on the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and youth violence will be followed by presentations about emergency department visits for self-inflicted injuries, falls and hip fractures among women at work, temporal trends in fall-related mortality rates and transportation- related injuries among foreign-born and US-born individuals. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1) Distinguish between trends in fatal and nonfatal indicators of youth violence in an urban setting; 2) Identify factors that may prevent future suicide-related morbidity and mortality for older adults who enter the emergency department for self-inflicted injury; 3) Discuss the importance of circumstances of same-level falls at work in the etiology of hip fracture in women over 45 years of age; 4) Identify characteristics associated with fall-related mortality rates; and 5) Study risk factors for transportation-related injuries among foreign-born and US-born individuals. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Cathey Eisner Falvo, MD, MPH | |||
| 12:30 PM | Welcoming Remarks | |||
| 12:35 PM |  | Examining trends in and characteristics of youth violence at the neighborhood level Krystal M. Perkins, Catherine Stayton, DrPH, MPH, Jeffrey A. Fagan, PhD, Bruce Link, PhD | ||
| 12:50 PM | | Emergency department visits for nonfatal self-inflicted injuries among adults aged 65 and older — United States, 2005 J. Logan, PhD, Alexander Crosby, MD, MPH, George W. Ryan, PhD | ||
| 1:05 PM | | Circumstances of occupational same-level falls and risk of hip fracture in women over 45 years of age who fell at work Santosh K. Verma, MPH, MBBS, David A. Lombardi, PhD, Wen R. Chang, PhD, Theodore Courtney, MS, CSP, Melanye J. Brennan, MS | ||
| 1:20 PM | | Elevated fall-related mortality rates — New Mexico, 1999–2004 Aaron Mark Wendelboe, PhD, Michael Landen, MD, MPH | ||
| 1:35 PM | | Transportation-related Injuries among US Foreign-born Population: Findings from US National Health Interview Survey, 2000-2005 Xiaofei Zhang, Songlin Yu, Kelly Kelleher, MD, J. R. Wilkins III, BCE, DrPH, Jun Xing, Huiyun Xiang, MD, MPH, PhD | ||
| 1:50 PM | Concluding Remarks | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | |||
| Endorsed by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Occupational Health and Safety; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA