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American Public Health AssociationInjury Control and Emergency Health Services SectionAPHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 8 No. 1January 2001***************************** APHA ICEHS Electronic News is circulated on the 15th of each month. CONTENTSFrom the Section Chair
Section News
General News
Position Announcements
* This item was also included in the previous edition of Electronic News ***************************** NOTES FROM THE CHAIRWith the start of a new year, deadlines are looming. Elsewhere in this newsletter you will find information about the Annual Meeting abstracts and nominations for Section Awards. Please participate in both. Also, you will soon be receiving a request for nominations for 2002 section officers. Now is the time to begin thinking about the candidates you want to nominate for leadership positions. Speaking of section leadership, the Education and Training Committee is still without a chair. Please consider volunteering! The ICEHS Web-site, http://www.icehs.org, provides an important means of obtaining up-to-date information on happenings in the Section. Wondering how to get in touch with your Section's leadership? You will find a complete and updated directory under "ICEHS Leadership". Under "Education" you will find injury course syllabi from a variety of institutions, as well as announcements of training opportunities. If any other instructors are willing to share injury course syllabus please forward it to me. Each month, EN is published simultaneously via email and on ICEHS website. If you prefer to read EN in HTML, simply click on the link http://www.icehs.org/news.htm at the top of this document. Complete archives of the EN and paper newsletters are also housed at this location. - David Lawrence, Section Chair david.lawrence@sdsu.edu ***************************** SECTION NEWS:Call for Abstracts - Atlanta 2000ICEHS invites abstracts for the APHA annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, October 21-25. Abstracts should be related to the prevention and control of intentional and unintentional injuries, and/or to emergency health services, including service delivery issues in treatment and rehabilitation. Abstracts are reviewed in two general categories: research and programs, and cover a wide range of injury areas and topics. A summary of the paper must be submitted with the abstract. Summaries can be up to 2000 words. Proposals for special sessions may be submitted and should identify at least three qualified speakers and include abstracts and author ID forms for each proposed paper. Persons proposing special sessions should advise the program chairs of their intention and the topic of the session. Abstracts are due Friday February 4, 2001, and must be submitted on-line. Go to http://www.apha.confex.com, then scroll down to the listing for the ICEHS section. Click on the section name to begin the on-line submission process. If you have any questions, contact one of the scientific program coordinators:
Special note: ICEHS would like you to submit an abstract for APHA, October 21-25, 2001 in Atlanta, GA; however, you should keep in mind that SAFE USA is also seeking abstracts for their conference held December 3-5, 2001, also in Atlanta, GA. For more information, see their website: http://www.cdc.gov/safeusa. - Susanne Ogaitis-Jones sogaitis@jhsph.edu ***************************** Section Awards - Call for Nominations for AwardsThe 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 ***************************** GENERAL NEWS:Death of Dr. John FinkleaDr. John "Jack" Furman Finklea, 67, died suddenly of a heart attack in Myrtle Beach, SC, on Friday, December 22, 2000. His passing marks the end of a long and dedicated career of a great champion for environmental health, occupational safety and health, and injury control. His leadership and advice were instrumental in the creation and development of CDC's extramural injury control research grants' program. Dr Finklea received a public service award from ICEHS in 1992 in recognition of his contributions to the field of injury control. We are deeply saddened by his passing. - David Lawrence, Section Chair david.lawrence@sdsu.edu ***************************** NIOSH RFA on Reducing Childhood Agricultural InjuryNIOSH recently announced a Request for Applications (RFA) for research grants to evaluate the effectiveness of community-based interventions in reducing childhood agricultural injury and disease. See http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OH-01-007.html for more details. ***************************** 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 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 ***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTSResearch Assistant, New England Medical CenterA major national pediatric trauma project, located at the New England Medical Center in Boston, is looking to hire a research assistant. The job offers the opportunity of being associated with a very visible research project and of cooperating on publications for major medical journals. The candidate must have: experience with statistical oriented public health research, good working knowledge of data base management in VMS environment, good working knowledge of statistical packages (BMDP, SPSS), interest in learning many different aspects of pediatric trauma, strong computer skills, and attention to detail and the ability to work independently. Major job duties: data management, statistical analysis, creation/modification of data base routines, and regular interaction with off-site collaborators. Requirements for applicants: bachelors degree (Masters preferred) with an emphasis on public health, three to five years experience in public health or research, and ability to handle relational databases, statistical analysis, and database programming. For more information, or to send a resume, contact: Carla Di Scala, PhD, Director, National Pediatric Trauma Registry, New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, Box #75K-R, Boston, MA 02111. Telephone: 617-636-5037, Fax: 617-636-8173, E-mail: E-mail: cdiscala_tra@opal.tufts.edu - Jeannette Hudson, JHudson@edc.org***************************** Faculty Position in Injury Prevention, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa College of Public Health The Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at The University of Iowa College of Public Health invites applications for a tenure track faculty position in injury prevention at the level of assistant or associate professor. Applications may also be considered at the level of faculty associate. The successful applicant will join the faculty of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and of the CDC-funded Injury Prevention Research Center. A secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, or in the Division of Emergency Medicine is possible. Applicants should have an MD, PhD or other advanced professional degree with research experience related to the epidemiology of injury prevention. Strong epidemiological skills are required. The candidate should have publications in the peer-reviewed literature and demonstrated teaching ability. Applicants should demonstrate outstanding research productivity or promise. Interest and experience in preventing injuries in a rural context is desirable. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with interdisciplinary research teams is desirable. The University of Iowa offers a rich environment for collaborative research including a federally funded center in agricultural health and safety, a world class driving simulator, and a Level 1 Trauma Center. Please send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interest, and names of three references to Dr. Craig Zwerling, Chair, Search Committee, (#F1850) Attn: Wendy Jackson, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, 100 Oakdale Campus, 124 IREH, Iowa City, IA 52242-5000. Our department is committed to increasing faculty diversity. The University of Iowa is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We strongly encourage women and minorities to apply. - John Lundell JLundell@mail.public-health.uiowa.edu ***************************** Closing Quote "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that we as a people will get to the promised land...." - Rev. 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