4024.0 Injury Epidemiology

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 8:30 AM
Oral
This interesting session will focus on the epidemiology of injuries. Presentations will include a discussion of injuries among children attending summer camps, restraint use and injury severity among children aged 9-12 years, using law enforcement data to examine incidence and risk of motor vehicle crashes, and tracking injuries through a web-based interactive report system.
Session Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Identify potential risk factors for summer camp injury 2. Describe the limitations of Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) data 3. Recognize the role of a web-based query system for statistical reporting of injury events

Welcoming Remarks
8:35 AM
Injury among children attending US summer camps, 2006-07
Ellen E. Yard, Christy L. Collins, MA and R. Dawn Comstock, PhD
     
8:55 AM
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF RESTRAINT USE AND INJURY SEVERITY AMONG OLDER CHILD PASSENGERS AGES 9-12 INVOLVED IN TOW-AWAY ROAD TRAFFIC COLLISIONS IN THE US BETWEEN 1991 and 2005
Jerry Puthenpurakal Abraham, BS MPH
     
9:15 AM
Utilization of law enforcement data to examine incidence and risk factors of motor vehicle crash: Riverside County, California
Marshare Penny, MPH and Wendy Betancourt, MPH
     
9:35 AM
Tracking injuries and other health related events in Illinois: A web-based interactive report system
Evelyn Lyons, RN, MPH, Ruth Kafensztok, DrPH, Daniel Leonard, MS, Regina Harders, BA and Mark Cichon, DO, FACEP
     
Concluding Remarks

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

Organized by: Epidemiology
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, Socialist Caucus

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

See more of: Epidemiology
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