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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing |
3132.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| This session provides valuable information on lessons learned during major disasters, describes an innovative, web-based tool for evacuation planning, and also highlights research on emergencies at schools. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe challenges for hurricane disaster management and recovery operations. 2. Describe a web-based mapping tool for planning community evacuations. 3. Describe parents’ knowledge of school emergency plans. 4. Discuss communication problems during the 9/11 World Trade Center evacuation. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Kathleen M. Monahan, MPH | |||
| 10:30 AM |  | Urban to rural evacuation: Development of a web-based planning tool Michael Meit, MPH, MA, Thomas Briggs, Alene Kennedy | ||
| 10:45 AM | | Displacement following Disaster and Incidence of Injury: A Study of the Older Adult Victims of Hurricane Katrina Lori Uscher-Pines, PhD, MSc, Richard Lieberman, Lynda Burton, ScD, Elizabeth Skinner, MSW, Jonathan Weiner, DrPH | ||
| 11:00 AM | | Attachment, Communication, and Delay during the Evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11th Joshua Nathan Semiatin, BA, Martin Sherman, PhD, Robyn R.M. Gershon, DrPH, Marcie S. Rubin, MPH, MPA | ||
| 11:15 AM | | Knowledge and behaviors of parents in planning for and dealing with disasters and emergencies at schools Katrina Kubicek, PhDc, Marizen Ramirez, PhD | ||
| 11:30 AM | | Critical data, challenging circumstances:Lessons from implementing the 2006 Louisiana Health and Population Survey Erin Bertschy, Gregory Stone, MS, Miranda Bryant, MPH, Colleen Kudla, MPH, Mary Parker, MPH, Clayton Williams, MPH | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services | |||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA