142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Comprehensive messages for safe sleep

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Abby Collier, MS , Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Wisconsin will share their work with hospitals to adopt and implement comprehensive safe sleep policies that support the AAP recommendations.  In Wisconsin SUID-Case Registry data for 2013 indicated that the majority of SUID cases were related to the sleep environment (76%); of those, nearly 80% were not placed on a firm sleep surface and 90% involved bed-sharing. Research demonstrates that parents rely on medical providers to teach them how to care for their children. As a result, hospitals are sites that are ripe for safe sleep education and modeling.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Identify the burden of SUID deaths in Wisconsin. Identify methods for hospitals to participate in comprehensive safe sleep programs.

Keyword(s): Maternal and Child Health, Surveillance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the child death review project manager for Wisconsin, and I fully understand the unique elements of the Wisconsin child death review system, our data collection process and how data is used to drive prevention efforts.
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.