Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

Submit Abstract

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 Friday, February 14, 2003. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and considered for presentation at the 131th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held November 15-19, 2003, in San Francisco, CA. The theme for the 2003 meeting is "Behavior, Lifestyle, and Social Determinants of Health".

Abstracts are reviewed in two general categories: research and program. The word limit for abstracts is 250 words. 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:
  • Data Issues in Injury Control
  • Emergency Transport and Care
  • Evaluation of Injury Prevention Programs
  • Firearm Violence
  • Global Health and Injury Control
  • Homicide and Suicide
  • Injuries to American Indians and Alaskan Natives
  • Injury Surveillance
  • Occupational Injury
  • Older Adults and Injury
  • Research Design and Methods in Injury Control
  • Sports and Recreational Injury
  • Transportation-Related Injury
  • Violence Against Women
An expanded summary of the paper must be submitted with the abstract. The average length of an expanded summary is 500 words, with a maximum limit of 2000 words. The purpose of the expanded summary is to provide additional information to help the reviewers judge the quality of your work. The expanded 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 awards a prize or prizes 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 midnight EST on February 7, 2003

  2. on the TITLE screen (Step 2 of the submission process), you must enter your abstract into the ICEHS Best Student Paper Competiont. You do this checking the "YES" button on the "Consider This Paper For An Award" question (located in the "Presenting Author and Award Submission" box). Use the pull-down menu to select "Best Student Paper Award".

  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, 2003)

  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@pire.org), Anna Waller, (AWaller@med.unc.edu), or Udita Patel (UVPatel@email.unc.edu). See below for detailed contact information.

Program Planner Contact Information:
Udita PatelDepartment of Emergency Medicine
UNC Chapel Hill
CB#7594
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7594
Phone: 919-
Fax: 919-966-3049
uvpatel@med.unc.edu

and
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
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: 919-843-0389
Fax: 919-966-3049
awaller@med.unc.edu

and
Kathryn E. (Beth) Moracco, PhD, MPH
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
1229 E. Franklin Street, 2nd Floor
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3307
Phone: (919) 968-8998 ext. 27
Fax: (919) 968-1498
moracco@pire.org