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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Jennifer Taylor, MPH, Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway Street, 5th Floor, Hampton House, Room 529, Baltimore, MD 21205-1996, 410-955-0442, jtaylor2@jhsph.edu, Larry Cook, MStat, Intermountain Injury Control Center, University of Utah, 295 Chipeta Way, P.O. Box 581289, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-1289, Lois Fingerhut, MA, Office of Analysis and Evaluation, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, and Joseph L. Annest, PhD, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/OSP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Mailstop K-59, Atlanta, GA 30341.

This session will continue the tradition of the past decade of APHA meetings during which section members discuss current issues in injury data. Three new dimensions will be added this year: (1) a lead-off presentation of recent developments in state, national and international efforts to improve injury data presented by NCHS and NCIPC leaders, (2) round table facilitators will introduce major issues that will be discussed at each table, and (3) a wrap-up will be conducted by each facilitator culminating in a package of recommendations for the ICEHS leadership to present to APHA leadership or other organizations as appropriate. The following topics will be discussed at length: (1) Mortality data, (2) Hospital data including emergency departments, (3) Emergency medical services (NEMSIS) and trauma care data including trauma registry, and (4) Traffic Safety Data.

Learning Objectives:

• increase data expertise among participants;
• address difficult data issues and explore potential solutions;
• develop and disseminate advocacy strategies for data quality improvement

Keywords: Injury, Data/Surveillance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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