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The work of researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy is being recognized at the 136^th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in San Diego this week (http://www.apha.org/meetings/). Faculty are listed as authors on a dozen scientific posters and presentations, with topics ranging from the association of body mass index (BMI) and injury in children in motor vehicle crashes to safety behavior patterns and abuse among low income, urban women. Please see the list below for all CIRP-authored abstracts being presented at the meeting.

Adnan Hyder et al. Epidemical features of road traffic injuries in Yunnan Province China

Adnan Hyder et al. Childhood Injuries in Asia and the Middle East: Results of a Pilot Study.

Stephen Wegener et al. Individual and contextual factors that influence multi-morbid older adults' participation in Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSM) Programs.

Shannon Frattaroli and Keshia Pollack. Street outreach workers, youth violence prevention, and community health: What it takes to work for peace in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Keshia Pollack et al. Childhood Body Mass Index and Injury from Motor Vehicle Crashes

Vanya Jones. What do parents who live in high crime neighborhoods tell their children about fighting?

Andrea C. Gielen et al. “Utilizing the creative arts and participatory research methods to explore the dynamics of community violence with urban youth.

Andrea C. Gielen et al. News coverage of Diva DUIs: Problematic social modeling or teachable moments?

Andrea C. Gielen, Patricia Mahoney et al. Safety behavior patterns and abuse experience of low income, urban women.

Shannon Frattaroli, Eileen McDonald, Wendy Shields, Andrea Gielen et al. Have injury prevention strategies, will travel: Assessing dissemination of the CARES mobile safety center.

Eileen McDonald, Wendy C. Shields, Shannon Frattaroli, Andrea C. Gielen et al. Formative evaluation and innovative partnership inform a community-based injury prevention intervention trial.

Andrea C. Gielen, Eileen McDonald, Shannon Frattaroli, Wendy C. Shields, et al.

Utilization of a mobile safety center by low income, urban families.

New Study from Center Professor Susan Baker Shows Increase in Suicide Rates

The rate of suicide in the United States has increased for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase in the overall suicide rate between 1999 and 2005 was due primarily to an increase in suicides among whites aged 40-64, with white middle-age women experiencing the largest annual increase.

Home Safety Council Recognizes Center Director

The Home Safety Council awarded the Home Safety Research Award to Center for Injury Research & Policy Director Andrea Gielen, ScD, ScM, at its annual Home Safety Awards Dinner on June 5, 2008 in Washington D.C. The Home Safety Research Award honors individuals whose research in injury prevention contributes to reducing deaths and injuries from falls, poisonings, fires and burns, drowning and airway obstruction.

Racial Disparities Reduced in Injury Mortality Data

When it comes to injury-related deaths, the gap between black and white American youths is narrowing, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study found that between 1999 and 2005 injury-related deaths among blacks ages 15 to 24 decreased, while injury-related deaths among whites increased. The findings are published in the June 2008 edition of Injury Prevention. Read more >>

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Child Transportation Safety

On September 24, 2007 at 6:30 p.m., Nadra Robinson was driving home with her one-year-old son Antoine buckled into his car seat. A few minutes later, Nadra was standing on the sidewalk staring at her wrecked car. A car running a red light had smashed into the passenger side of Nadra's car, where Antoine was sitting in his rear-facing car safety seat.