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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3195.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Injuries to young workers continues to be a problem in the United States and worldwide. In order to better target interventions, the scope of the problem and the usefulness of interventions must be identified. This panel will present information regarding various types of data used to evaluate injuries, methods used to obtain and analyze the data, and methods to evaluate safety training effectiveness. The panel includes the following papers: Surveillance of Occupational Injuries to Young Workers in Massachusetts; Injuries Among Working Youth in Brazil; Do Young Workers Perform Differently on Safety Knowledge Tests after Training: A Study from the Food Service Industry; and Youth at Risk: Pesticide Knowledge and Work Behaviors of Adolescent Migrant Farmworkers. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the strengths and weakness of various data sources used for surveillance of work-related injuries to youth 2. Define the needs of adolescent migrant workers regarding the use of agricultural chemicals 3. Describe the effectiveness of safety training among workers in the food service industry based upon age, education, and job location 4. Identify the injury patterns of children working in Brazil | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Mary E. Miller, MN, ARNP | |||
| Young worker safety: Understanding the problem Letitia Davis, ScD, Sharon P. Cooper, PhD, Raymond C. Sinclair, PhD, Linda A. McCauley, PhD | |||
| Surveillance of occupational injuries to young workers in Massachusetts Letitia Davis, ScD, Ellen Frank, MPH, Danielle Dell, MPH, Beatriz Pazos, MPH | |||
| Injuries Among Working Youth in Brazil Frida M. Fischer, PhD, Vilma Santana, MD, PhD, Sharon P. Cooper, PhD, Denize C. Oliveira, Liliane R. Teixeira, Ignez S. Martins | |||
| Do young workers in food service perform differently than older workers on safety knowledge tests after training? Raymond C. Sinclair, PhD | |||
| Youth at risk: Pesticide knowledge and work behaviors of adolescent migrant farmworkers Linda A. McCauley, PhD, Jennifer Scherer, MPH, Sarah Michaels, MPH, Diana Sticker, MPH | |||
| Predictors of Injury in Wisconsin Working Youth Aged 14-19 Susan Garman, BSN, MS-EPH, COHNS, Terry Moen, Henry Anderson, MD | |||
| Organized by: | Occupational Health and Safety | ||
| Endorsed by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||