|
ICEHSICEHS Home Page |
American Public Health AssociationInjury Control and Emergency Health Services SectionAPHA ICEHS Electronic News Vol. 9 No. 3March 2002***************************** APHA ICEHS Electronic News is circulated on the 15th of each month. CONTENTSSection News
General News
Position Announcements
***************************** SECTION NEWS:Notes from the ChairGreetings! Those of you who are planning (or thinking about) attending the annual meeting in Philadelphia this fall should be advised that APHA has changed the schedule. The opening session will be on Sunday afternoon (not Monday morning) and the closing session will be Wednesday afternoon (not Thursday morning). These changes are have resulted in changes in the scheduling of the section's business meetings, social hour, and awards dinner that are described in greater detail in this newsletter. A personal goal of mine during my tenure as section chair is to find ways for more ICEHS members to become actively involved in the section's activities and to develop activities that better meet the needs of section members. To this end, I'm excited to announce that the ICEHS will be developing a short electronic survey for section members so that we can learn more about your fields of expertise and the activities that would support your ability to promote injury control and emergency health services. Please respond to the survey that will be e-mailed to you in May. In the meantime, the section leadership is always eager to hear from ICEHS members. Our phone numbers and e-mail addresses can be found at the sections web page: www.icehs.org/leader.htm Please share your ideas with us. The ICEHS has been expanding its affiliations with professional organizations representing EMS physicians and certified athletic trainers (see the news items from these organizations elsewhere in this newsletter). If any section member would like to volunteer to serve as a liaison between the ICEHS section and another professional organization, please let me know. This is a great way to promote programmatic development and research in subspecialty fields while increasing professional exposure to ICEHS and potentially building section membership. Finally, I direct your attention to the two announcements from the CDC that appears in this edition of E-News. In the first, the NCIPC is calling for applicants for the position of Program Director for Safe Vietnam. This person, based in Hanoi, would be responsible for overseeing the implementation of Safe Vietnam. Note the closing date of March 31 for that position (see Position Announcements below). In the second, the new initiative from the National Center for Health Statistics to develop new ICD codes for terrorist events will be of general interest to many section members (see General News below). Be safe! - Cathy Gotschall, Section Chair cgotschall@nhtsa.dot.gov ***************************** Partners in Information Access for Public Health ProfessionalsLast November 2001, APHA accepted an invitation from the National Library of Medicine (NIH), to join with the Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals (PIAPHP). The partnership consists of the following organizations:
This collaborative project was developed to provide public health professionals with timely, convenient access to various information resources to help them improve the health of the American public. The main e-mail address of the partnership is www.nnlm.gov/partners http://www.nnlm.gov/partners This will also be linked to the APHA website under Continuing Education. - Cathy Gotschall, Section Chair cgotschall@nhtsa.dot.gov ***************************** Input in Selecting APHA Executive Director Search CommitteeFollowing Dr Ahkter's announcement that he is leaving APHA (see below), a search committee has been formed to find a new Executive Director. Dr. Oliver Fein has been selected as the Inter-Sectional Council representative on the Executive Director Search Committee. If section members want to have input in this process, this is their contact: Oliver Fein, M.D. - Cathy Gotschall, Section Chair cgotschall@nhtsa.dot.gov ***************************** Report from Scientific Program CommitteeThanks to everyone who reviewed abstracts for the annual meeting. Over 150 abstracts were reviewed by our dedicated team of reviewers. Every abstract received at least 2 reviews; most received 3 reviews. No reviewer had to review more than 6 abstracts, and we endeavored to match reviews to abstracts on the basis of the topic of the abstract and the expertise of the reviewers. We are currently making final accept/reject decisions and beginning to arrange the program. A reminder that, as the Chair noted in her column, the scientific sessions at the 2002 annual meeting will begin on Sunday and finish on Wednesday. In contrast to previous years, there will be no Thursday sessions at the 2002 annual meeting. Please take this new format into account when planning your travel. For more information, see APHA's program-at-a-glance http://www.apha.org/meetings/2002paag.pdf - Steve Marshall (SMarshall@unc.edu), Beth Moracco (Moracco@email.unc.edu), Anna Waller (AWaller@med.unc.edu). ***************************** Update from the National Athletic Trainers' AssociationThe National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) would like to make all ICEHS members aware of two pertinent events. The first is that March is National Athletic Training Month. The theme is injury prevention. Below is a copy of the NATA press release for this event. The second is the NATA's 53rd Annual Meeting & Clinical Symposia, June 14 - 18, 2002 in Dallas. Dr. Bertice Berry is the keynote speaker. Some highlights of the educational sessions include 'Pre-participation Physical Examinations'; 'Fluid Replacement & Hydration Strategies'; 'Sport-Related Concussion'; 'Spinal Disorders Across the Lifespan'; and 'Management of Emergencies: Heat Illness & Respiratory Conditions'. For more information on both of these happenings, please go to www.nata.org. NATA press release: - Jim Brenner brenner@voicenet.com ***************************** Introducing the National Association of EMS PhysiciansThe National Association of EMS Physicians is an organization of physicians and other professionals who provide leadership and foster excellence in out-of-hospital emergency medical services. NAEMSP was founded in 1984 to serve as an advocate and resource for the EMS physician and other EMS professionals. Less than two decades later the NAEMSP membership has grown to almost 1,300 physicians, paramedics, nurses, administrators, educators, researchers and key EMS professionals. NAEMSP worked together with the National Highway Traffic Administration to develop the EMS Agenda for the Future a blueprint for the EMS profession. For more information, visit the NAEMSP web site at :
http://www.naemsp.org Our position papers are available at www.naemsp.org under the publications/advertising tab. - Jennifer Kimzey, Association Manager, National Association of EMS Physicians ***************************** GENERAL NEWSNCHS Develops New ICD Codes to Classify Acts of TerrorismThe National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has developed a new set of ICD codes in order to identify and classify acts of terrorism. This initiative has concurrence from the Bureau of Justice Statistics as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The following information has been sent from Ed Sondik, Director of NCHS to the other CIO's in CDC, the Data Council (within DHHS), and to the World Health Organization. In light of the events of September 11, NCHS felt the need to evaluate the adequacy of existing statistical classifications in terms of their ability to characterize deaths and illnesses associated with acts of terrorism. In addition, requests were received from hospitals and State vital statistics offices about how to classify injuries and deaths caused by terrorism. NCHS has taken the initiative on this task because classification of injuries and deaths is within the purview of our leadership in national vital statistics as well as through our role in developing and maintaining the Clinical Modification of International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Further, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Collaborating Center for the Classification of Diseases for North America is housed in and staffed by NCHS. It was recognized that wide input was important to the development of the classification. In October, we sought input first within CDC (through the Associate Directors for Science), and then from other organizations and individuals. These included the National Violent Death Reporting System, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association, the heads of WHO Collaborating Centers for the Classification of Diseases, the WHO Mortality Reference Group and the WHO Update Reference Committee, and the National Association of Medical Examiners. The newly-developed ICD codes for terrorism and guidelines for their use are based on comments and recommendations made by each of these groups. The new and detailed codes for classifying terrorism events will be a part of ICD-10 for mortality and ICD-9 CM for morbidity and will be included in ICD-10 CM, which is not yet finalized. Injuries and deaths associated with terrorism, as defined by the FBI, will be tabulated as subsets of homicide and suicide where appropriate. In this manner, those wanting to separate terrorist-related deaths and injuries from all homicide will have a defined method for so doing. We remain in contact with both the BJS and the FBI to ensure that the classification will meet their needs as well. The attached document outlines the rationale for the classification, its guidelines for use and the codes to be used. (Editor's Note: the attachment is not included here for reasons of space. The document hopefully soon become available for download via the NCHS website. We will advice you of the URL in a future E-News). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Lois Fingerhut, Special Assistant for Injury Epidemiology in NCHS' Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, at 301-458-4213, or Donna Pickett, Medical Systems Administrator, Data Policy and Standards Staff, at 301-458-4434. In the near future, we will disseminate this change widely through a variety of appropriate mechanisms, possibly including the MMWR. - Lois Fingerhut laf4@cdc.gov ***************************** New Child Passenger Safety Recommendations by AAPMotor vehicle crashes are the leading killer of children over the age of one in the United States and correct restraint use is the best way to protect children from injury in a crash. To help parents and pediatricians better understand how to use child safety seats, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued updated, more complete recommendations in the policy statement, "Selecting and Using the Most Appropriate Car Safety Seats for Growing Children: Guidelines for Counseling Parents." The policy statement is available at: http://www.aap.org/policy/re0116.html Please ensure that the information that you are providing to your patients, clients, advocates and students are updated and in-line with the new recommendations. - Theresa H. Cruz, Theresa.Cruz@carolinashealthcare.org ***************************** What's New at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control WebsiteWe invite you to read about the latest news for injury prevention by clicking on the current edition of What's New at the Injury Center on our website at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/whatsnew/whatnew.htm. Highlighted in this update:
Plus, two new grant announcements for funding injury prevention research in the areas of violence prevention and traumatic injury biomechanics: The challenge of reducing the burden of injury is too large for anyone of us to tackle alone. If you know of others interested in reducing violence and injury prevention, please share this email with them and encourage them to join the mailing list (listserv) that announces updates to our What's New page. Subscription is easy and can be done through our website at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/email_list.htm. - Darryl Owens dao9@CDC.GOV ***************************** Annual Stueland Symposium in Marshfield, WIPlease register for the 2nd Annual Stueland Symposium entitled, "Timely Topics in Rural Medicine." The symposium will be held in Marshfield, WI at the Melvin Laird Center. This Symposium will be held from 11:30 a.m. Thursday May 2nd, through 4:30 p.m. Friday May 3rd. CME's are also available. Complete information on faculty, agenda and registration for all events is available at the Web site of the National Farm Medicine Center: http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/nfmc/stueland_symposium/2002/ Leading physicians from South Carolina, New York, Minnesota, and Wisconsin will share expertise in pesticides, zoonoses, and practicing rural medicine. A choice of field trips to Central Wisconsin agricultural operations will enable symposium participants to experience farm families' lifestyles and hear their concerns and ideas about improving safety and health on farms. You may also register for a pre-conference, "Intensive Training in Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention," that will be held May 1, 2002 in Marshfield, WI at the Melvin Laird Center. A post-conference is also scheduled, "Understanding Farm Trauma and Rescue," for the evening of May 3, 2002 at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Research Station in Marshfield, WI starting at 4:30 p.m. The symposium is sponsored by Marshfield Clinic and Marshfield Medical Research Foundation in cooperation with the National Farm Medicine Center, Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Children's Safety Network. - Mary Oertel OertelM@MMRF.MFLDCLIN.EDU ***************************** Fall Course in Injury Research MethodsDate: September 9-13, 2002 - Jim Stretch jstretch@ese.washington.edu ***************************** Who Guidelines on Monitoring InjuriesExperts from more than 50 countries have combined forces to produce guidelines that will help healthcare staff in developing countries to set up systems to monitor the toll of death and disability from injuries. The manual, which is published by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, is designed to help planners and front line clinical staff produce systematic data on injuries, whether they are working in a computerized city hospital or a remote first aid clinic. The information that the systems generate will help target action to cut injury rates. Injuries, whether intentional or unintentional, have been seen as the "Cinderella" of the public health movement. Prevention has been neglected until recently largely because, the WHO has argued, injuries were viewed as accidents or random events. Now that the role of prevention from seat belts to fire safety is better understood, public health efforts are still hampered by lack of information on numbers, types, and circumstances of injuries. Monitoring systems are least developed in poorer countries, where the toll of deaths and disability is often highest. Although the guidelines are designed as a practical aid to setting up data collection systems in all settings, they are meant to be particularly useful in countries with severe restraints on resources. They explain how to set up simple, cheap but effective systems for collecting, coding, and processing data in places where there may be little or no electronic equipment, inadequate electricity supplies, few staff, and no research expertise. The manual reproduces model forms used in hospitals in South Africa, Jamaica, and Nicaragua. More than five million people die worldwide from injuries each year, and many more have permanent or short term disabilities, according to WHO figures. Road traffic collisions are the leading cause of injury related deaths in men, and self inflicted harm is the main cause in women. But causes vary by region. In Africa, wars are the main cause of death from injuries, whereas in China self inflicted injuries are the main factor. The WHO's injury surveillance guidelines are available at: www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/index.html ***************************** The 11th Annual Johns Hopkins Summer Institute: Principles and Practice of Injury Prevention. June 2-7, 2002. Baltimore, Maryland.This one-week intensive course is for professionals new to the field of injury prevention and those who seek to broaden or advance their basic skills and knowledge. Many of the nation's leading experts in injury control from Johns Hopkins and from other institutions conduct the lectures and discussions. Small group exercises are held daily which enable participants to apply what they've learned in lecture and integrate this with previous experience. The week culminates with student presentations of their small group projects. Registration begins in February 2002. Please register early as space is limited and fills up quickly. For more information about the course, or about academic credits, contact Diane Reintzell, Phone: (410) 955-2079, Fax: (410) 614-2797, E-mail: dreintze@jhsph.edu or, from mid-February, see www.jhsph.edu/Research/Centers/CIRP/ci03006.htm for more details. -Andrea C. Gielen agielen@jhsph.edu ***************************** Conference Calendar AvailableA calendar of injury-related conferences, courtesy NCIPC, is available at:
***************************** 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and ControlThe 6th World Conference will be held 12-15 May, 2002, in Montreal Canada. Early bird discount registration will continue until 01-25-2002. Presenters include Dr. Sue Binder, Director of the National Center for Injury Control and Prevention, and Dr. Jeff Runge, Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. See http://www.trauma2002.com for more details. ***************************** Report AvailableIn February 2001, many firearm injury researchers met in Los Angeles to discuss the needs of the field. A document summarizing their discussions was distributed to policy makers in early January 2002. If you would like a copy of the report, please contact Susan B. Sorenson of the UCLA School of Public Health at sorenson@ucla.edu. ***************************** Invitation to Submit Injury and Violence Manuscripts to the American Journal of Health BehaviorThere will be a theme issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior on the Health Behavior Approaches to Injury and Violence. Karen Liller and David Sleet are the guest editors. The American Journal of Health Behavior is the official journal of the American Academy of Health Behavior and is indexed in Index Medicus. This research-based journal strives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure and processes on health maintenance, health restoration and health improvement; disseminate knowledge of holistic, multi-disciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have proven to impact health improvement and recovery. Manuscripts related to these objectives that focus on injury and violence are welcome. Please link to www.ajhb.org for the instructions for authors. All manuscripts are due by March 31, 2002. If you have further questions before submission of your manuscript please contact Karen Liller at kliller@hsc.usf.edu or David Sleet at dds6@cdc.gov. You can send manuscripts to either guest editor as an e-mail attachment. We prefer to receive manuscripts in Microsoft Word format. The manuscripts (after being proofread by the guest editors) will be submitted to the American Journal of Health Behavior for the blind peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be returned to the authors for necessary changes. Upon receipt of the final copies, galley proofs will be sent to the authors 10-12 weeks prior to publication. - Karen Liller kliller@hsc.usf.edu ***************************** KID Web site focuses on Children and Product SafetyA recent Web site www.KidsInDanger.org focuses on issues around Childhood Injury and Product Safety. Kids In Danger (KID) was founded by Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar in 1998, after the death of their 16-month-old son, Daniel Keysar, in a faulty portable crib. The organization is dedicated to the memory of Danny and all victims of dangerous children's products. Their mission is to: 1. promote the development of safer children's products; 2. advocate for a legislative and regulatory strategy for children's product safety.; and, 3. educate the public, especially parents and caregivers, about dangerous children's products. They are also promoting a new book "It's No Accident : How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products" by E. Marla Felcher (available for $12.56, via a link on their website..part of the purchase cost is donated to KID if you use the link on their site to buy the book). - Steve Marshall Smarshall@unc.edu ***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTSenior Service Fellow, Program Director in Vietnam Applicants: Must have public health experience, some management skills and experience in analyzing data. International experience and a doctoral degree are preferred. Salary Range: $65,195-$77,043 Specialty: Prevention of Unintentional Injuries Organizational Location: The duty station is UNICEF in Hanoi, Vietnam. This position is supported by the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. The assignee will serve as a UNICEF representative on Safe Vietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam. Overview of Duties:
A statement of interest and curricula vitae are due by March 31, 2002 to: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTChief, Evaluation Core Unit, The University of North Carolina, Injury Prevention Research Center Doctoral level training in public health, social science or closely related area. Experience in conducting quantitative evaluation research and publishing evaluation research findings in peer reviewed journals; excellent organizational and writing skills; ability to play leadership role in research or program evaluation activities. Experience public health program or policy development associated with injury control strongly preferred. Principal functions of this position include: developing the Center's core resources and agenda in evaluation research; identifying potential faculty collaborators and nurturing their involvement in the Center; securing external funding for evaluation research; developing strategies for involving students in injury control through both mentored relationships and linkages to classroom training; developing strategies to translate evaluation research findings and methodologies to other researchers, practitioners and policy makers . Ability to mentor junior colleagues and work in an interdisciplinary, collaborative environment will be carefully considered. Approximate salary:$50,000 - $65,000. See website for details: www.sph.unc.edu/iprc. Send letter, CV and names of references to: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTInjury Epidemiologist, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management Applications are invited for a tenure-track position (Assistant, Associate, or full Professor) for an epidemiologist with an earned doctorate and experience in injury research. The successful applicant will be a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, with the potential for a joint appointment in the Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and/or Epidemiology. Responsibilities will include directing the NIOSH-funded training program in Occupational Injury Epidemiology and teaching a graduate-level course on the Epidemiology of Injuries. The Department seeks candidates with a track record in the design, conduct, and publication of epidemiological research. Collaborative opportunities include violence prevention, rehabilitation research, environmental policy, and emergency preparedness. Interested applicants must mail a full curriculum vitae and a letter providing references and describing special interests to Professor Susan P. Baker, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore MD, 21205. In addition, the information can be emailed to sbaker@jhsph.edu. Deadline is May 1, 2002. Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. - Susan Baker sbaker@jhsph.edu ***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTRural Youth Safety Specialist, National Farm Medicine Center-ML1, Marshfield Medical Research Foundation The NFMC/National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (NCCRAHS) is funded by two federal agencies, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). The MCHB-funded activities are associated with three other sites which together are referred to as the Children's Safety Network (CSN). Job Summary: The Rural Youth Safety Specialist is responsible for several day-to-day project activities relating to the MCHB-funded National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety. Responsibilities include a variety of advanced health and safety activities, verbal and written communications, and initiatives designed to build capacity for injury prevention activities with maternal and child health audiences at the federal, national, state, and community level. This individual acts as the primary contact for some of the technical assistance inquiries related to rural health and safety and injury prevention issues associated with youth. -Chris Hanna hannac@mmrf.mfldclin.edu ***************************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTTraining Fellowships In Occupational Injury Epidemiology The University of Iowa, College of Public Health, introduces a new and exciting training program in Occupational Injury Epidemiology. The program is offered by the University's Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety, a NIOSH-funded Education and Research Center. Training activities will be closely coordinated with the Injury Prevention Research Center. Recipients will receive a stipend and tuition and will have excellent opportunities to be trained in cutting-edge occupational injury research. Recipients must apply and be admitted to the UI College of Public Health in the Departments of Epidemiology or Occupational and Environmental Health. Students applying for doctoral training are eligible for fellowship grants. The UI College of Public Health, established in 1998, is a new and growing program with wonderful opportunities for students. This is one of the few training programs in injury control, and a new opportunity to be trained in an important and emerging field. For more information, please contact Drs. Craig Zwerling or Corinne Peek-Asa at (319) 335-4895 or corinne-peek-asa@uiowa.edu. - Corinne Peek-Asa corinne-peek-asa@uiowa.edu ***************************** "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - E. Roosevelt |
The ICEHS E-News Editor is Steve Marshall.
Send submissions to Smarshall@unc.edu.
If you have comments or suggestions about this WWW-based version,
e-Mail David Lawrence
Copyright © 1999-2008 ICEHS. All rights reserved.
Revised: 19 Mar 2002.