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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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3150.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | |||
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| Unintentional injuries are serious public health problem. They are the leading cause of death for people aged 1 to 44. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading mechanism for morbidity and mortality among all unintentional injuries. Posters in this session describe several issues relating to the occurrence and prevention of transportation related injuries as well as other important mechanisms of unintentional injuries, such as sports-related injuries and poisonings | |||
| Learning Objectives: Describe the effectiveness of tailored injury prevention programs for addressing childhood injury prevention. Identify barriers to child safety seat usage in urban low income Latino communities. Understand the role of motorization and vehicle-type in traffic safety trends. Identify opportunities for injury prevention for scholastic aged boys’ and girls’ lacrosse play. | |||
| Rise and fall of traffic fatalities: Implications for global road safety projections Kavi Bhalla, PhD, Majid Ezzati, PhD, Ajay Mahal, PhD, Joshua Salomon, PhD, Michael R. Reich, PhD | |||
| Child passenger safety for inner-city Latinos: New approaches from the community Janet A. Holden, PhD, Molly Martin, MD, Kyran Quinlan, MD, MPH | |||
| Racial disparities in seat belt use: An observational study in 4 American cities David G. Schlundt, PhD, Sheila Easley, MS, Irwin Goldzweig, MA, Keith Hinch | |||
| Impact of level of injury on administrative license revocations taken against cited impaired drivers Lisa K. Hyde, MPA, Stacey Knight, MStat, Lenora Olson, MA | |||
| Mapping news coverage of injury in an urban metropolitan area: Are the news media communicating prevention messages? Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD, Andrea Gielen, ScD, Juhee Cho, MA, Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH | |||
| Neighborhood characteristics and overdose mortality in New York City (NYC) and Miami-Dade County Melissa Tracy, BA, Angela Bucciarelli, MPH, Ramiro Martinez, PhD, Tinka Markham Piper, MPH, CSW, David Vlahov, PhD, Kenneth J. Tardiff, MD, MPH, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH | |||
| Injury epidemiology of scholastic-aged girls’ and boys’ lacrosse: A three-year prospective study Andrew Lincoln, ScD, Richard Y. Hinton, MD, MPH, MEd, PT, Jon L. Almquist, MS, ATC, Wiemi A. Douoguih, MD, Krishn M. Sharma, MD | |||
| Trends in pediatric unintentional poisoning hospitalizations Lakota K. Kruse, MD, MPH, Sandhya Deshpande, Charles E. Denk, Ph D | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA