Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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The Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) section invites abstracts related to the prevention and control of unintentional and intentional injuries and to emergency health services, including service delivery issues in treatment and rehabilitation.

Abstracts must be submitted via this website. The deadline for submitting abstracts to ICEHS section is midnight EST on Thursday, February 7, 2002. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and considered for presentation at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held November 9-13, 2002, in Philadelphia, PA. The theme for the 2002 meeting is "Putting the Public Back into Public Health".

Abstracts are reviewed in two general categories: research and program. Research abstracts typically include purpose, methods, results, and conclusions from a research study. Program abstracts typically include a description of the development and implementation of an injury prevention program. Evaluations of injury prevention programs may be submitted in either category.

Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Alcohol, Drug Use and Injuries
  • Community Interventions and Evaluation
  • Current Issues in Disability
  • Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
  • Education and Training in Injury Control
  • EMS and Trauma Systems
  • Environmental Factors and Design for Safety
  • Firearms and Injuries
  • Injury Control and International Health
  • Injury Surveillance
  • Innovative Research Methods in Injury Control
  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Issues in Fatality Review
  • Issues in Injury Data
  • Issues in Suicide
  • Migrant Workers, Farm Workers and Injury
  • Motor Vehicle and Transportation Issues
  • Native Americans and Injury Control
  • Occupational Injury
  • Occupational Injury in Adolescents
  • Older Adults and Injury Control
  • Policy Initiatives in Injury Control
  • Protecting Children and Youth from Injury
  • Recreational and Sports Injuries
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion
  • Violence Against Women
  • Violence in the Workplace
  • Youth Violence
A two-page summary of the paper must be submitted with the abstract. The purpose of the two-page summary is to provide additional information to help the reviewers judge the quality of your work. The two-page summary should not simply repeat the material in the abstract but should provide complementary details about the background, methods, results, and implications (for research abstract) or background, development, implementation, and evaluation (for program abstracts).

Proposals for special sessions may be submitted and should identify at least two qualified speakers and include abstracts and author ID forms for each proposed paper. Persons proposing special sessions should advise one of the Scientific Program Committee Co-Chairs (see contact information below) of their intention and the topic of the session, and, for future reference, should record the abstract number of each paper submitted for the session.

Best Student Paper Award:

Each year, ICEHS grants an award for the best student paper accepted and presented at the annual meeting. Applicants who are currently enrolled in a degree program or have completed their programs within the last year, and have not previously presented the same data at a professional meeting or published the data, are welcome to participate. Abstracts submitted to the late-breaker session will not be considered for the student competition. To participate in the competition, students must:

1) submit their abstract, via this website, by February 7, 2002;
2) send a letter or email to Dr. Susan G. Gerberich, by February 7, 2002, stating their school, program degree, advisor's name, and expected date of completion of their degree;
3) submit one completed manuscript, organized and presented according to a standard peer-reviewed journal format, and four blinded copies, to Dr. Susan G. Gerberich (must be received by September 1, 2002);
4) be a primary or secondary member of the ICEHS section at the time of presentation.

For additional information regarding the student paper competition, contact Dr. Susan G. Gerberich, University of Minnesota (ph: 612-625-5934; email: gerbe001@umn.edu).

Latebreaker Sessions:

There will two latebreaker sessions, one oral and one poster. A call for latebreaker abstracts will be released around June 2002. For further information about the latebreaker sessions, please contact Dr. Nelson Adekoya, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ph: 770-488-4642; email: NBA7@cdc.gov).

For Further Information:

Contact one of the Scientific Program Committee Co-Chairs, Steve Marshall (SMarshall@unc.edu), Beth Moracco (Moracco@email.unc.edu), or Anna Waller (AWaller@med.unc.edu). See below for detailed contact information.

Program Planner Contact Information:
Stephen W. Marshall
PhD
Department of Epidemiology, and Injury Prevention Research Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#7505, Chase Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7505
Phone: 919-966-2251
Fax: 919-966-0466
smarshall@unc.edu

and
Kathryn E. (Beth) Moracco
PhD, MPH
Department of Maternal and Child Health, and Injury Prevention Research Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#7445
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7445
Phone: 919-966-2251
Fax: 919-966-0466
moracco@email.unc.edu

and
Anna E. Waller
ScD
Department of Emergency Medicine, and Injury Prevention Research Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#7594
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7594
Phone: 919-966-2251
Fax: 919-966-0466
awaller@med.unc.edu

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