3041.0 ICEHS Special Session on Injury Research Methods

Monday, October 27, 2008: 8:30 AM
Oral
Exciting advances are being made in epidemiologic methods and statistical approaches to studying injury outcomes. This session showcases a number of these important developments and novel applications of quantitative and qualitative approaches to conducting injury research.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe a novel web-based confidential data system for enhancing child death review teams’ reporting goals and prevention efforts. 2. Identify how the efficiency of qualitative violence research can be increased by interviewing health and service providers. 3. Discuss software options for multilevel statistical modeling and how mixed methods approaches can help study the urban environment and violence. 4. Describe an approach to studying how workers’ time is spent and implications for their safety.
Moderators:
Joyce Pressley, PhD, MPH and Guohua Li

9:30 AM
A Mixed Method Approach to Studying The Relationship Between Business Improvement Districts and Youth Violence
John M. MacDonald, PhD, Robert Stokes, PhD, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD and Daniela Golinelli, PhD

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

Organized by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services