The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: American Indians/Alaskan Natives: Community-based Injury Prevention
5039.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
American Indians/Alaskan Natives: Community-based Injury Prevention
Injury is acknowledged problem in American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. This session details progress in implementing intervention programs and evaluating them. Epidemiologic findings and capacity-building inititives are also described.
Learning Objectives: 1. To understand injury problems specific to American Indian and Alaskan Native communities 2. To learn about building the capacity of Indian Health Service injury prevention professionals
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Lenora M. Olson, MA
8:30 AMPredictors of suicide attempts among American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic, and Anglo schoolchildren in New Mexico
Lynne Fullerton-Gleason, PhD, Michelle Chino, PhD, Karen Gaylord, ABD, G. Thomas Shires, MD
8:45 AMTraumatic Brain Injury-- American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1992-1996
Nelson Adekoya, DrPH, L. J. David Wallace, MSEH
9:00 AMExternal evaluation of Indian Health Service injury prevention training for American Indians and Alaska Natives
Carolyn E. Crump, PhD, Robert J. Letourneau, MPH, Shelley Golden, MPH
9:15 AMBuilding the capacity of Indian Health Service staff to develop integrated and sequential injury prevention training
Robert J. Letourneau, MPH, Carolyn E. Crump, PhD, Shelley Golden, MPH, Alan Dellapenna, MPH, Kelly Taylor, MS, REHS
9:30 AMLearning to teach adults: Building the capacity of Indian Health Service injury prevention professionals
Carolyn E. Crump, PhD, Robert J. Letourneau, MPH, Shelley Golden, MPH, Diana Kuklinski, MS, RS
Organized by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
Endorsed by:School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA