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1010.2: Saturday, November 03, 2007: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | ||||
CE Hours: 6 contact hours | ||||
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| Partnership: | ATOD, ICEHS, Center for Learning and Global Public Health | |||
| Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview: | ||||
| The purpose of the Public Health Traffic Safety Institute is to provide a forum for multidisciplinary discourse, learning, and skill building (as it relates to program planning) amongst professionals in the fields of public health and traffic safety. This Institute will allow participants to hone and develop their leadership skills in order to effectively address and prevent automobile crashes. Ultimately this initiative will help participants play a major role in strengthening linkages between public health and traffic safety disciplines. Traffic safety topics are many and range from impaired driving to addressing concerns with elderly drivers. However this institute will tackle issues surrounding the teen driver (15-20 yrs), more specifically teen access to alcohol, seatbelt use and Graduated Drivers License Laws (GDL) effectiveness. The scientific evidence from these aforementioned topics will be used as background to frame the institute’s content. In return, this information will be incorporated into skill building exercises to assist participants in developing effective evidence- based programs to address teen driver safety. People are injured and lives are lost on a daily basis on our roads and highways. Research has shown that teen drivers have the highest crash risk of any age group. Furthermore, per mile traveled, they have the highest involvement rates in crashes, from crashes involving property damage -to those that are fatal (NHTSA, 2006). According to NHTSA, in 2004, - 3,620 drivers age 15 to 20 were killed, and an additional 303,000 injured, in motor vehicle crashes. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Mighty Fine, MPH | |||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Youth and Driving Mighty Fine, MPH | |||
| 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | National Organization for Youth Safety (NOYS)-Teen Driver Panel Q&A Valerie Mendralla, MPH, CHES, Mighty Fine, MPH | |||
| 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Problem(s) with Teen Drivers and How Graduated Driver Licensing Helps Robert Foss, PhD | |||
| 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | Clickin' it with Teens -“Teenage Seat Belt Use: What Does Research Tell Us about the Problem and Potential Solutions?” Anne T. McCartt, PhD | |||
| 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Teen Access to Alcohol and the driving concerns Mighty Fine, MPH, Diane E. Riibe | |||
| 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM |  | Influences on Teen Driving and Related Interventions Jean T. Shope, MSPH, PhD | ||
| Organized by: | APHA-Learning Institute (APHA-LI) | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA