141st APHA Annual Meeting

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5127.1
Healthcare: Occupational Health and Safety

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Patty Quinlan, MPH, CIH

10:30am
Safe patient handling activities in Massachusetts hospitals
Christine E. Miner, MPH, Angela K. Laramie, MPH, D. Tran, MPH, Letitia Davis, ScD, SangWoo Tak, ScD and David H. Wegman, MD, MSOH
10:45am
Healthcare workers' fight to lift safely: A review and analysis of state safe patient handling laws
Bill Borwegen, MPH
11:00am
Injuries and costs associated with patient-to-worker violence in hospitals
Judith Arnetz, PhD, MPH, Deanna Aranyos, Mark Upfal, MD, MPH, Jim Russell, Mark Luborsky, PhD, Joel Ager, PhD, Lydia Hamblin and Lynnette Essenmacher, MPH
11:15am
Back pain among nursing home workers: Persistence within individuals
Laura Punnett, ScD, Rebecca Gore, PhD and David Kriebel, ScD
11:30am
Why are needlesticks and other sharps injuries occurring in home healthcare?
Pia Markkanen, ScD, Margaret M. Quinn, ScD, CIH, Angela Laramie, MPH, June Fisher, MD, Catherine Galligan, MSc, Susan Sama, ScD, Natalie Brouillette, MSc, Daniel Okyere, MSc and Letitia Davis, ScD

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