Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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 2007 meeting is "Politics, Policy & Public Health." Abstracts must be submitted via this website. The deadline for submitting abstracts to the ICEHS section is 11:59 pm PST on Tuesday, February 13, 2007. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and considered for presentation at the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held November 3-7, 2007, in Washington, DC. 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: Best practices Community interventions Data: innovative uses and surveillance Emergency and disaster preparedness Emergency care Fall injuries Motor vehicle-related injuries Occupational injuries Poisonings Politics, policies, policy development, policy implementation Public safety Recreation injuries Suicide and self-inflicted injuries Traumatic brain injuries Unintentional injuries Violence, including child maltreatment, youth, intimate partner, older persons, sexual, gang, and firearm 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 To propose that a special session be organized, 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. Please note that materials submitted to this invitation, and presented at, the Annual Meeting of the APHA should be non-partisan in nature. 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 for a late-breaker session will not be considered for the student competition. To participate in the competition, students must: Submit their abstract, via this website, by 11:59 pm PST on February 13, 2007. On the TITLE screen (Step 2 of the submission process), you must enter your abstract into the ICEHS Best Student Paper Competition. 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." 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, 2007. 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). Late-breaker Sessions: A notice of late-breaker sessions, and a call for late-breaker abstracts, may be released around June 2007. Whether this will occur will depend upon the number of submissions to the present call for abstracts that have been accepted. For Further Information:
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Program Planner Contact Information: Douglas Wiebe, PhD Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania 933 Blockley Hall 423 Guardian Drive Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 Phone: 215-746-0149 Fax: 215-573-2265 dwiebe@mail.med.upenn.edu and Charles C. Branas, PhD Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 924 Blockley Hall 423 Guardian Drive Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215 573-5381 cbranas@mail.med.upenn.edu