Oral

This session on will focus on the epidemiology of injuries, including youth violence, suicide, self-injury, falls and transportation related injuries. A presentation on the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and youth violence will be followed by presentations about emergency department visits for self-inflicted injuries, falls and hip fractures among women at work, temporal trends in fall-related mortality rates and transportation- related injuries among foreign-born and US-born individuals.

Session Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1) Distinguish between trends in fatal and nonfatal indicators of youth violence in an urban setting; 2) Identify factors that may prevent future suicide-related morbidity and mortality for older adults who enter the emergency department for self-inflicted injury; 3) Discuss the importance of circumstances of same-level falls at work in the etiology of hip fracture in women over 45 years of age; 4) Identify characteristics associated with fall-related mortality rates; and 5) Study risk factors for transportation-related injuries among foreign-born and US-born individuals.

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing