Oral

Topics including suicide and self-directed injury, mental health and firearms, child agricultural injuries, dog bite fatalities, and a mobile injury prevention information vehicle are described in these five presentations on research and policy implications.

Session Objectives: 1. Identify emergency department populations at risk for self-harm. 2. Describe the relation between mental disorder and firearm ownership and implications for suicide and suicide prevention. 3. Understand the risk for children in agriculture operation households to sustain bystander injuries. 4. Identify factors putting young children at risk for dog bite injury and articulate three prevention strategies. 5. Describe the novel use of a mobile injury prevention vehicle to disseminate injury prevention information and products.