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American Public Health AssociationInjury Control and Emergency Health Services SectionAPHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 7 No. 11December 2000***************************** APHA ICEHS Electronic News is circulated on the 15th of each month. CONTENTSSection News
General News
Position Announcements
* This item was also included in the previous edition of Electronic News ***************************** FROM THE INCOMING CHAIREach year, the first duty for the new chair that involves all section members is to write this column. Before giving my comments on the year ahead I want to thank Lisa Barrios, immediate past asing the transition to my role as Chair. Through their mentoring I learned that the office of Secchair, and Mary Ann Gregor, outgoing Past Chair for their help with my duties as Chair-Elect and with etizational skills,ion Chair is not primarily ceremonial or honorary, as with some groups, but one that requires organ hard work, and tact. I promise to try to measure up to their example. There are big changes underway in the structure of the Association that have the potential to change the nature of sections and the services sections provide to members. Most of these changes were strongly opposed by your ICEHS leadership and by the leadership of many of the other sections. One of the most immediately tangible changes was the announcement that printed newsletters will no longer be supported by the Association. Printed newsletters are to be replaced by a Web-based product. Although there was overwhelming opposition to the plan, this policy begins immediately. Sections weren't given the opportunity to develop alternative publication plans. Although many of our members have email addresses, some do not. Even among those who have Internet access some may not wish to depend upon the electronic media for important section news. Although APHA staff promises that a limited number of printed copies will be available to send to members who don't have email, I have little faith in this process. I will be working with the newsletter staff to find funding sources so that we may continue to publish a printed newsletter. One of the positive changes has been the increased tendency for APHA staff to include ICEHS Section members when making plans, responding to queries, and forming partnerships. A recent example is a new partnership between the APHA and the American Society of Interior Designers (discussed elsewhere in this issue). The Association sought input from ICEHS members and those of several other sections in deciding how to proceed with this alliance. Lisa Barrios, Jake Pauls and I represented the ICEHS Section at a joint meeting early one morning during the Annual Meeting in Boston. The rest of the section leadership and I have agreed to accept the challenge to oppose the troublesome new plans and policies. We will work to see that the progress that began last year to have APHA staff recognize ICEHS members as experts who can provide valuable advice. I'll keep you informed. - David Lawrence, Section Chair david.lawrence@sdsu.edu ***************************** SECTION NEWS:Section Awards - Call for NominationsThe time for submitting nominations for ICEHS Section awards has arrived. The awards, a description of the recognition, past awardees, and the deadline for submission are listed below. You may download the form in MSWord or in Acrobat format from the ICEHS Website (http://www.icehs.org). Please include a CV for the nominee with the form. If you have any questions contact Catherine Gotschall at: cgotschall@nhtsa.dot.gov or by telephone: 202-366-1653. The deadline for nominations for these three awards is Friday, February 25, 2000. Distinguished Career: To recognize an individual, near the end of his/her career, for outstanding dedication and leadership in injury control and emergency health services with contributions and achievements that have had a significant and long-term impact on the field. Past Awardees: Julian Waller, Jess Kraus, Kathy Christoffel, Leon Robertson, Steve Teret, Pat Waller, Fred Rivara, Ellen Mackenzie, Jerome Baranik, Robert Verhalen, John States. Excellence in Science: To recognize an individual, at mid-career, for outstanding dedication and leadership in the science of injury control and emergency health services with contributions and achievements that have had a significant and long-term impact on the field. Past Awardees: Carol Runyan, Ted Miller, Arthur Kellermann. Public Service: To recognize outstanding dedication and leadership in injury practice and advocacy with contributions and achievements that have had a significant and long-term impact on the field of injury control and emergency health services. Past Awardees: Art Funke, Sara Brady, David Heppel, Jack Finklea, LoisFingerhut, Sue Gallagher, Rick Smith, Liz McLoughlin, Murray Katcher, Andrew McGuire, Michael Finkelstein, Billie Weiss. - Catherine Gotschall, Chair-Elect cgotschall@nhtsa.dot.gov***************************** SECTION NEWS:American Society of Interior Designers Allies with the APHAIn mid-November Lisa Barrios, Jake Pauls, and David Lawrence met with staff of the APHA and members of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). ASID promotes design excellence through professional education, information sharing, and the creation of a favorable environment for the practice of interior design. With more than 30,000 members, ASID establishes a common identity for professionals and businesses in the field of interior design. (Interior designers aren't interior decorators.) Interior designers are certified and typically degreed. Professional members of ASID must pass rigorous acceptance standards: they must have a combination of accredited design education and pass a two-day accreditation examination. Interior Designers have training in building codes and standards, ergonomics, human factors, and psychology. The profession of interior design isn't young. However, they seem in much the same position that injury prevention processionals were a few years ago. They are working to achieve a professional identity that is recognized as separate from architects and from interior decorators and to raise awareness that the public may benefit from their unique work. The ASID approached the APHA with intention of forming an alliance to create safer more healthy living and working spaces. Although the Association invited representatives from other sections, those of us from the ICEHS Section were the only ones who chose to participate. Much of the meeting was spent sharing the capabilities that each group brings to the cooperative. We talked about injury risk from houses and apartments that are poorly designed for the family that lives there. Issues of falls to the floor, window falls, and swimming pool drowning were among those we discussed. There will be additional meetings soon. - David Lawrence, Section Chair david.lawrence@sdsu.edu ***************************** SECTION ELECTION RESULTSThe results of the Section elections are:
Congratulations to these incoming officers! We look forward to another productive year and more Section growth in 2001. Keep up the good work! - Lisa Barrios lic8@cdc.gov ***************************** THE ICEHS WEB SITE HAS MOVEDIn order to accommodate changes on the communications committee, the Section Web-site has moved. The new URL for the ICEHS Web-site is: The old URL will forward to this new site.
***************************** GENERAL NEWS:Status of Hospital Discharge E-coding in the U.S.As a public service, I have posted to the Injury Control Resource Information Network (ICRIN) a table that shows the status of Hospital Discharge E-coding by state. It is available HERE I would appreciate it if any colleagues with state injury control programs (or other knowledgeable persons) would take a look this page and notify me of any corrections or additions so we have this often asked question answered and updated in one convenient place. Note, according to figures posted as of November 2000, 60% of the U.S. population is now covered and 50% of the states are covered. Congrats to states who have it mandated or who have high voluntary rates (please, do not ask for any state recounts...). Perhaps STIPDA might think about making specific goals to improve the number of new mandated states and to start encouraging existing states to see if legislation/rules are needed in anticipation of ICD-10 CM in a few years. - Hank Weiss hweiss@injurycontrol.com ***************************** GENERAL NEWS:New Resource on Youth & Pickups TrucksA new fact-sheet entitled "Youth Riding in Pickup Truck Cargo Areas" is available through the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (NCCRAHS), a site of the Children's Safety Network. This resource includes U.S. youth injury statistics, influencing factors, prevention strategies, and available tools to assist injury professionals in addressing this problem. The sheet can be obtained by:
- Holly DeBlois debloish@MMRF.MFLDCLIN.EDU ***************************** GENERAL NEWS:Apply Now for Injury Prevention Internships with the Indian Health Service for Summer of 2001The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service, is responsible for providing a comprehensive health services delivery system for American Indians and Alaska Natives. An important component of this health care system is the IHS Injury Prevention program. The IHS Injury Prevention program is looking for MPH students primarily to offer them a unique opportunity to apply public health principles to specific injury problems in Indian country. Working closely with an IHS Injury Prevention Specialist, Interns may be involved in injury surveillance, conducting research on an injury topic, developing and/or implementing a community-based injury intervention, or program evaluation. Activities will vary according to local need and the applicant's interests. Through a competitive application process, up to ten applicants will be selected for an Injury Prevention Internship position during the summer of 2001. The ideal candidate will be enrolled in a graduate level public health program, and have demonstrated an interest in some topical area within the field of injury prevention. Other candidates will be considered. Last year, interns worked with IHS staff in Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, California, the Dakotas, and the mid-West. Most internships will be located on or near Indian reservations. All Interns will be full-time IHS employees through the Junior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (JRCOSTEP) of the Public Health Service. JRCOSTEP students earn approximately $2,300 per month, plus travel costs to and from the internship site. Internships will be approximately 3 months around summer 2001, but other 3-month periods would be considered. Applicants are required to complete a JRCOSTEP application for the U.S. Public Health Service, Division of Commissioned Personnel. JRCOSTEP information and all of the required forms are online at: http://dcp.psc.gov/ ; click on the commissioned corps website, then Students, or call (800) 279-1605 or (301) 594-3452. Time is short, so interested students should act on this ASAP. Students also need to send a resume and letter of interest to IHS. Contact Alan Dellapenna, MPH, IHS Headquarters in Rockville, MD, for further information about locations, questions, and additional requirements: adellape@hqe.ihs.gov; 301-443-0097. - David Wallace dxw1@cdc.gov***************************** GENERAL NEWSNonfatal Firearm-Related Injury Data Available for DownloadData sets of CDC's nonfatal firearm-related injury data, obtained using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, are now available for public use. They also have data on BB and pellet gun-related injuries. These are the final data sets that we used for publishing our reports. These data can be downloaded from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) located at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. They have over 700 data sets available on their system. All of these datasets are available at no charge. Our data are available in several formats (i.e., ASCII, SAS, and SPSS). There are also an accompanying documentation with background information to analysts and a codebook. The URL is http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD. The study number is 3018. These data sets are available to all researchers. I hope those interested will find them useful in their firearm-related injury research activities. - Lee Annest jla1@cdc.gov ***************************** GENERAL NEWSPatient Education And CounselingCall For Manuscripts for Special Issue on Injury and Violence Prevention Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers, and clinicians. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate the education and counseling model in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research and to promote the study organizational issues involved with the delivery of patient education, counseling and health promotion services. A special issue of this fully indexed, peer-reviewed journal will be devoted to articles that address injury and violence prevention issues from the perspective of health communications, patient education and counseling, and/or health education and promotion. Both descriptive studies and intervention research in the health care setting are of particular interest. Health care settings are broadly defined to include managed care, private practice, hospitals, emergency medical care providers, health departments, etc. Outreach initiatives that communicate with the larger public about injury related issues would also be considered. Both unintentional and intentional injury topics are of interest. Examples of types of articles being sought are those that:
All articles should discuss the application of the work to future research and to current injury policy and programs. Receipt date for manuscripts: January 31, 2001. Anticipated notification date: March 31, 2001. Editor: Judith Hall, PhD; Guest Editor: Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM. Questions? Call Dr. Gielen at (410) 955-2397 or e-mail agielen@jhsph.edu to discuss paper ideas. - Andrea Gielen agielen@jhsph.edu ***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTSResearch Associate, Social and Behavioral Studies, UNC Highway Safety Research CenterThe University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center is seeking a Research Associate to work as part of a team conducting a variety of studies on social/behavioral issues in transportation-related injury. This is a professional level position and requires an M.A. or Ph.D. In the short-term, primary research areas for this position will focus on young drivers, older drivers and the role of alcohol in transport injury. UNC-HSRC is an internationally renowned traffic safety research center with along history conducting research that informs the development of, or evaluates, policies to reduce transportation-related injury. In the social/behavioral area we do basic research into the fundamental issues involved in transportation injury, develop and evaluate community interventions to ameliorate problems, and evaluate local, state or national policies to address behavioral aspects of transport injury. With this position we are seeking to expand our capabilities in the social/behavioral domain. Current/recent studies in this area deal with teen drivers, elderly drivers, driver drowsiness, driver distraction, pedestrian injury, bicycle helmet use & bicyclist injury, alcohol use among recreational boaters, driver education, and drinking by college students, among others. Salary is commensurate with experience. This is a re-advertised position and is available immediately. Current application deadline is January 10,2001. A brief description of the position and application information are listed at: http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/aboutus/employment.htm#associate For information about HSRC visit our web site at: http://www.hsrc.unc.edu For more information about the social/behavioral research program at HSRC, contact Rob Foss (rob_foss@unc.edu) or Jane Stutts (jane_stutts@unc.edu). - Rob Foss rob_foss@unc.eduEducation & Intervention Program Coordinator, Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, West Virginia UniversityAttention Registered Nurses!! West Virginia University is seeking a highly motivated, experienced individual to manage & administer a major injury education & intervention program within the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine. For complete details see our Web Page http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/crem/jobs.htm - Dave Fulaytar dfulaytar@hsc.wvu.edu Assistant Director for Administration, UNC Injury Prevention Research CenterProvide administrative/fiscal/human resources management in research center with multiple projects and funding sources; supervise staff; resource development; strategic planning. Experience in budget and/or personnel management required. Prefer MPA, MBA or MPH and/or experience in academia. Applications to: Dr. C. Runyan, Director, Injury Prevention Research Ctr, CB 7505, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. The University of North Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to identify themselves. - Carol W. Runyan carol_runyan@unc.edu Supervisory Epidemiologists/Statisticians, NIOSHThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Safety Research (DSR), within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located in Morgantown, West Virginia, has four immediate openings for Section Chief positions within the Surveillance and Field investigations Branch (SFIB) and the Analysis and Field Evaluations Branch (AFEB). The Division of Safety Research serves as the focal point for the NIOSH occupational traumatic injury research program and includes national surveillance of occupational morbidity and mortality; an epidemiologic field investigation program of workplace fatalities; analytic epidemiologic research assessing etiology and intervention effectiveness; and human factors and safety engineering research. These Section Chiefs will be responsible for directing the DSR programs aimed at designing, planning, carrying out and publishing occupational injury surveillance and field investigations, and conducting analytic epidemiologic research of occupational traumatic injuries. We are searching for leaders in the field of health research of occupational traumatic injuries to provide overall guidance and direction for these programs of highly qualified and motivated research personnel. The salary range for this position is $59,623-$91,589. These positions are currently announced through October 31, 2000, and may be accessed via internet at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov. Technical inquiries may be made by contacting: Dawn N. Castillo, SFIB Chief at (304) 285-5916 or Lynn Jenkins, AFEB Chief at (304) 285-5913. NIOSH is an equal opportunity employer. All NIOSH workplaces are smoke-free. ***************************** From the EditorI'm sorry that EN was, again, late this month! FYI, Rowan Patricia Marshall was born on November 11, and Anna and I are beginning to catch our breath. Hopefully things will return to normal (for EN, at least!) next month. Cheers - Steve Marshall ***************************** "Regardless of any appearance of individual brilliance, we are each profoundly ignorant. And never more so than when we are absolutely certain of our convictions." - Timothy David Noakes |
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