213312 Public Health & Child Maltreatment: Why does CDC care?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 8:50 AM

Alexander Crosby, MD, MPH , Ncipc, Dvp, CDC, Atlanta, GA
This presentation will provide an overview of the involvement of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's in child maltreatment prevention. The public health approach to child maltreatment etiology and surveillance will be described and specific examples of work related to these areas will be discussed. Specifically, the presenter will describe the development of definitions of child maltreatment and data elements for use in public health surveillance. Use of, challenges to and limitations of these definitions will be discussed. Additional projects focusing on issues related to child maltreatment surveillance and the application of the CDC child maltreatment definitions will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
Define the public health approach to child maltreatment data. Describe a challenge to application of the public health approach to child maltreatment data. Describe an additional CDC project related to child maltreatments.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have had previous successful experience presenting material at national scientific conferences including previous APHA annual meetings and have background working on the topic of child maltreatment.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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