5122.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

Fatal Child Abuse and Fatal Domestic Violence

Multiagency Child Fatality Review, CFR, Teams exist in all states, Canada and Australia. Multiagency Domestic Violence Fatality Review Teams exist in 28 states. Many local teams manage both reviews. These systems are joined by studies on, homicide in pregnancy in Southern States, the use of various health records to evaluate cause intentionality and outcome of injury to young children and national systems for violence surveillance. CFR Teams present a model of interagency collaboration and accountability. Multiagency case data match, links the various professions. State and local teams provides potential links within and between states coordinated in part by the ICAN National Center for Child Fatality Review, ICAN-NCFR. Surgeon General’s Objectives, 2010 includes 70% of fatal child injuries reviewed by CFR teams. Child abuse and domestic violence programs have been separated by philosophy, focus, different advocacy groups and separate funding. The combined systems have grown together at the local level with fatality review providing models for national systems to follow. This will be the first joint presentation of both national systems. Studies of pregnant homicide victims and children with intentional injuries note the use of multiple record systems to understand these injuries. National violence surveillance suggests future directions for public health and others. Discussion will address future directions including multiagency intervention with review of nonfatal injuries, joint ventures with FIMR and SIDS programs linked birth and infant death certificates and systematic prevention programs.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: attendees will be able to: 1 Describe the extent of Child Fatality Review in the US 2 Describe the teams that review both fatal child abuse and fatal domestic violence. 3 List 3 types of health record system that may include data on violence 4 describe three national data systems that could be used to capture violence data nationally
Moderator(s):Michael J. Durfee, MD
12:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
12:35 PMChild Fatality Review - The National System
Michael Durfee, MD, Sandra Guine, LCSW, M. Patricia West, MSSW, Claudia J. Spencer
12:45 PMAdult Domestic Violence Death Review - National Developments
Neil Websdale
12:55 PMCauses, intentionality, and outcomes of injury in young children
Carla C. Brinker, Tana L. Hall, Deborah L. Covington, DrPH, Kitty Yerkes, BA, David Howard, MPH, Thomas V. Clancy, MD
1:05 PMFatal Child Abuse and Fatal Domestic Violence
Michael Durfee, MD
1:15 PMHomicide as a Cause of Pregnancy-Associated Mortality in the Southern United States, 1991-1997
Jeani Chang, MPH, Cynthia J Berg, MD, MPH, Alison M Spitz, MS, MPH, Linda E Saltzman, PhD
1:25 PMCauses, intentionality, and outcomes of injury in young children
Carla C. Brinker, BS, Tana L. Hall, BA, Deborah L. Covington, DrPH, Kitty Yerkes, BA, David Howard, MPH, Thomas V. Clancy, MD
1:35 PMProgress in developing a national violent death reporting system
Len Paulozzi, MD, MPH
1:45 PMPanel Discussion
2:00 PMDiscussion
2:15 PMConcluding Remarks
Sponsor:Maternal and Child Health
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA