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 injuries and violence; emergency health services; and safety and health. Abstracts of papers addressing research, evaluation, program and policy are appropriate for this section. Please indicate on your abstract which of these categories is most closely related to your abstract. The theme for the 2006 meeting is "Public Health and Human Rights."

Abstracts must be submitted via this website. The deadline for submitting abstracts to ICEHS section is midnight EST on Tuesday, February 14, 2006. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and considered for presentation at the 134th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held November 4-8,2006, in Boston, MA.
Abstracts are reviewed in the general categories of: research, program, and policy.. Research abstracts typically include purpose, methods, results, and conclusions from a research study. Program abstracts typically include a description of the development, implementation, and evaluation of an injury prevention or emergency health program. The word limit for abstracts is 250 words.

Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Emergency and disaster preparedness
  • Evaluation of community programs
  • Injury and violence prevention policy development and policy implementation
  • Innovative data usage
  • Motor vehicle related injuries
  • Partnerships, collaborative and consortiums to improve public safety
  • Poisoning
  • Prevention strategies that work
  • Research
  • Suicide prevention
  • Surveillance
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Unintentional Injuries
  • Violence, including youth, intimate partner, child maltreatment, sexual violence, gang and firearm violence
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 2,000 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 abstracts) or background, development, implementation, and evaluation (for program abstracts).

Special Sessions For a special session, at least two qualified speakers should be identified. Abstracts for EACH proposed presentation in the session MUST be submitted via the same mechanism as all abstracts as outlined above. Persons proposing special sessions should advise the Scientific Program Committee 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 14, 2006

  2. On the TITLE screen (Step 2 of the submission process), you must enter your abstract into the ICEHS Best Student Paper Competion. You do this by 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 by September 1, 2006.

  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 2006. 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: 770-488-8406; email: NBA7@cdc.gov).

For Further Information:
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Billie Weiss, MPH
Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center
University of California, Los Angeles
10911 Weyburn Ave, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone: 310-794-2725
bpweiss@ucla.edu