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5120.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| This session involves presentations on an interesting range of late-breaking topics, ranging from policies regarding flammable furniture, to psychiatric consequences of injury, to injury prevention strategies being used in National Parks. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Articulate safety policies regarding furniture flammability. 2. Discuss the approach national parks are taking to prevent injuries among visitors. 3. Describe the importance of psychiatric consequences of injury. 4. Describe the problem of injury among individuals with paraplegia. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM | |||
| 12:30 PM |  | Visitor injury in National Parks: The magnitude of the problem and how it is being addressed Sara B. Newman, DrPH, MCP | ||
| 12:48 PM | | Inequality in risk but equality in perception: A geospatial comparison of child pedestrian injuries with parental perceptions June M. Tester, MD MPH, Irene H. Yen, PhD, Michael Jerrett, PhD | ||
| 1:06 PM | | Emergency care must include a focus on psychiatric consequences of injury Therese Richmond, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, Theiman Ackerson, MSW, Justine Shults, PhD, Wensheng Guo, PhD, Vicente Gracias, MD, Judd Hollander, MD, Keith Robinson, MD, Jay Amsterdam, MD | ||
| 1:24 PM | Injury hospitalizations among individuals with paraplegia: Nationwide Inpatient Sample 2001-2004 Erin O. Heiden, MPH, Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD, MPH, Jingzhen Yang, PhD, MPH, Veerasathpurush Allareddy, DDS | |||
| 1:42 PM | | Furniture Flammability Standards: A Challenge to Public Health and Safety Policy Peter A. Brigham, MSW, Arlene Blum, PhD | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA