Session: Firearms and Firearm-Related Injury
5163.0: Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Firearms and Firearm-Related Injury
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Daniel Webster, ScD
2:30 PMIs there a gun in the home? Concordance in the knowledge of adolescents and adults
Susan B. Sorenson, PhD
2:50 PMDetermining the rate at which legal handgun purchasers become ineligible to possess the weapon they purchased
Mona A. Wright, MPH, Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH
3:10 PMFactors associated with state variations in homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm deaths
James. H Price, PhD, MPH, Amy Thompson, MS&Ed, Joseph A. Dake, PhD, MPH
3:30 PMRural versus urban firearm death in the United States: Different causes, same results
Charles Branas, PhD, Michael L. Nance, MD, Michael R. Elliott, PhD, Therese S. Richmond, PhD, C. William Schwab, MD
Organized by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Environmental Health, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA