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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4025.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
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| In this session, the learner will hear about using the BRFSS to measure quality of life and working with poison control centers to monitor prescription drug abuse/misuse. The learner will also hear about the importance of keeping surveillance data on gunshot injuries and death. Lastly, the importance of collecting asthma health-related indicators at the local level will be discussed. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. List risk behaviors whose prevalence appears to be similar among both non-Hispanic white and Mexican American males and females living on the Texas-Mexico border 2. Recognize the strengths of using Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to measure population based health-related quality of life (HRQOL) using the Healthy Days measures 3. Discuss the importance of maintaining a data surveillance system of gunshot injuries and deaths 4. List which asthma indicators are important to county and local-level advocates 5. Discuss monitoring prescription drug abuse/misuse using Poison Centers | |||
| Robin Lee, MPH | |||
Risk behaviors by Texas-Mexico border residence and ethnicity ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Maureen Sanderson, MPH, PhD, Maria E. Fernandez, PhD, Ronald J. (RJ) Dutton, PhD, Arlette Ponder, Dina Sosa | |||
| Seasonal Patterns of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Haomiao Jia, PhD, William Bina, MD, MPH | |||
| Characteristics of multiple victim gunshot incidents: Marion County, Indiana Jodi Hackworth, MPH, Xun Shen, MPH, Heather McCabe, JD, MSW, Lori Lovett, MSEd, John Aumage, BS, Joseph O'Neil, MD, Marilyn Bull | |||
| Asthma surveillance data for California counties Galatea C. King, MPH, Julie Von Behren, MPH, Victoria Nelson, MPH, Jamila Stockman, MPH, Rick Kreutzer, MD, Barbara I. Cowan, MPH | |||
| Prescription drug abuse epidemic: Surveillance of opioid abuse using Poison Centers (PC) Alice Hughes, MSPH, Richard Dart, MD, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| Endorsed by: | Academic Public Health Caucus; Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Occupational Health and Safety | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA