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4233.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| This session on a major cause of death worldwide highlights national trends in firearm violence, gun carrying among students in the U.S., and programs and policies to prevent firearm-related injury. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss outreach worker programs for preventing community gun violence. 2. Evaluate trends in firearm-related injuries and deaths. 3. Describe students’ impressions of gun carrying and implications for carrying prevention strategies. 4. Describe effectiveness of policies to enable firearm trafficking. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Katherine Vittes, PhD, MPH | |||
| 2:30 PM |  | Implementation of a Community Gun Violence Prevention Program: A Focus on Outreach Workers' Efforts Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH, Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH | ||
| 2:45 PM | | Role of two categories of outreach workers in high-risk conflict mediation to stop neighborhood shootings and killings Tio Hardiman, MA, Tim Metzger, MUPP, Gary Slutkin, MD | ||
| 3:00 PM | National trends in nonfatal firearm-related injuries compared to deaths: Are firearm-related injury rates on the rise? Joseph L. Annest, PhD, Tadesse Haileyesus, MS, James A. Mercy, PhD, George W. Ryan, PhD, Robin M. Ikeda, MD, MPH | |||
| 3:15 PM | | Gun carrying among high school students: Does overestimation of peer gun carrying matter? Mary G. Vriniotis, MS, Renee M. Johnson, PhD, MPH, Matthew Miller, MD, ScD, Deborah Azrael, PhD | ||
| 3:30 PM | | Effects of Policies to Promote Firearm Dealer and Owner Accountability on Firearm Trafficking Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH, Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH, Maria T. Bulzacchelli | ||
| 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