232008 Safe Sleep: A State's Perspective of Linking MCH & IP and SUID Case Registry

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 : 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Lindsey Myers, MPH , Injury, Suicide and Violence Prevention Unit, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO
        
Colorado has had a history of collaboration between the maternal-child health and injury prevention divisions. This session will outline Colorado-led initiatives to reduce infant sleep related injuries and deaths and describes Colorado's experience participating in the CDC's Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Case Registry Pilot program.

Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how to use child fatality review data to increase collaboration between state injury prevention and child and maternal health programs in order to address infant safe sleep.

Keywords: Maternal and Child Health, Injury Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to present on creating infant safe sleep initiatives by increasing collaboration between maternal and child health (MCH) and injury prevention programs because I currently oversee the Injury Prevention Program at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, as well as the Child Fatality Prevention System.
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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