4233.0 Firearm Violence

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
This session on a major cause of death worldwide highlights national trends in firearm violence, gun carrying among students in the U.S., and programs and policies to prevent firearm-related injury.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss outreach worker programs for preventing community gun violence. 2. Evaluate trends in firearm-related injuries and deaths. 3. Describe students’ impressions of gun carrying and implications for carrying prevention strategies. 4. Describe effectiveness of policies to enable firearm trafficking.
Moderator:
Katherine A. Vittes, PhD, MPH

2:30 PM
Implementation of a Community Gun Violence Prevention Program: A Focus on Outreach Workers' Efforts
Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH and Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH
        
2:45 PM
Role of two categories of outreach workers in high-risk conflict mediation to stop neighborhood shootings and killings
Tio Hardiman, MA, Tim Metzger, MUPP and Gary Slutkin, MD
        
3:00 PM
National trends in nonfatal firearm-related injuries compared to deaths: Are firearm-related injury rates on the rise?
Joseph L. Annest, PhD, Tadesse Haileyesus, MS, James A. Mercy, PhD, George W. Ryan, PhD and Robin M. Ikeda, MD, MPH
  
3:15 PM
Gun carrying among high school students: Does overestimation of peer gun carrying matter?
Mary G. Vriniotis, MS, Renee M. Johnson, PhD, MPH, Matthew Miller, MD, ScD and Deborah Azrael, PhD
        
3:30 PM
Effects of Policies to Promote Firearm Dealer and Owner Accountability on Firearm Trafficking
Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH, Jon S. Vernick, JD, MPH and Maria T. Bulzacchelli, PhD
           

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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

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