141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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3236.0
Violence and Firearms (Social and Behavioral Health Epidemiology)

Monday, November 4, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Participants in this session will learn the role of violence and firearms in relationships and interventions to prevent such violence.
Session Objectives: Demonstrate the need for effective interventions for men who have sex with men (MSM) who experience sexual violence to mitigate their risk for HIV acquisition. Describe racial/ethnic disparities among women in the U.S. related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use and the role of intimate partner violence (IPV) and ethnic minority stressors in this relationship. Discuss evidence-based primary prevention interventions to avert gang initiation among high-risk youth
Moderator:
Kathleen Brown, PhD, MPH, CHES

12:30pm
Introductory Remarks
12:38pm
Sexual violence and HIV-related risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States: A nationally representative cross sectional survey, 2002, 2006-2010   
Muazzam Nasrullah, MD; MPH, Emeka Oraka, MPH, Pollyana R. Chavez, PhD and Eduardo E. Valverde, MPH
     
12:56pm
Longitudinal trends in firearm related hospitalizations in the United States: Profile and outcomes during the years 2000 to 2008   
Min Kyeong Lee, DMD, Veerajalandhar Allareddy, MD, MBA, FAAP, Sankeerth Rampa, B.Tech, MBA, MPH, Romesh Nalliah, BDS and Veerasathpurush Allareddy, BDS, PhD, MBA
     
1:14pm
Posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol misuse: Effects of partner violence and ethnic minority stressors   
Sherry Lipsky, PhD, MPH, Mary Kernic, PhD, MPH, Qian Qiu, MBA and Deborah S. Hasin, PhD
     
1:32pm
Early life and social factors associated gang involvement among street-involved youth: A gender-based analysis   
Brandon Marshall, PhD, Kora DeBeck, PhD, Annick Simo, Thomas Kerr, PhD and Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC
     
1:50pm
Concluding Remarks

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

Organized by: Epidemiology
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services, Medical Care, Mental Health

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