4361.0 Motor Vehicle-Related Injury

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 4:30 PM
Oral
Motor-vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death worldwide. This session introduces attendees to the most recent research in this field, highlighting work on topics including risk differences between urban and rural settings, childhood obesity as a risk factor, safety restraints and crash outcomes among infants and children, and a safety intervention for young drivers.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe some of the social and structural factors associated with motor vehicle accidents in rural communities. 2. Identify how physiology and biomechanics affect injury risk during car crashes and the influence of obesity. 3. Discuss how a matched-set cohort study design was used to study child safety seat effectiveness. 4. Evaluate the effectiveness of a young adult driver intervention program to reduce traffic violation recidivism.
Moderator:
Michael Osur, MBA

4:30 PM
Effects of Graduated Driver Licensing in Upstate New York
Motao Zhu, MD, MS and Guohua Li, MD, DrPH
  
4:50 PM
Reducing Motor Vehicle Injuries in Rural Communities: A Social Determinants of Health Framework
Marlene Bengiamin, PhD, John A. Capitman, PhD and Heather Berg, MA
5:10 PM
Childhood Body Mass Index and Injury from Motor Vehicle Crashes
Keshia Pollack, PhD, MPH, Dawei Xie, PhD, Kristy B. Arbogast, PhD and Dennis R. Durbin, MD, MSCE
  
5:30 PM
Updated estimates of the effectiveness of child safety seats, 1996-2005
Thomas M. Rice, MPH, PhD and Craig Anderson, DHSc, 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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