Title: ICEHS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOIR APHA 2004

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Section/SPIG: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

Issue Date:

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The Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) section invites
abstracts related to the prevention and control of injuries and to emergency
health services, including issues in transport, care, outcomes, and
rehabilitation.

Abstracts must be submitted via this Web site:
<http://apha.confex.com/apha/132am/icehs.htm>. The deadline for submitting abstracts to ICEHS section is midnight EST on Friday, Feb. 13, 2004.

Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and considered for presentation at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held Nov. 6 - 10, 2004, in Washington, D.C. The theme for the 2004 meeting is "Public Health and the Environment".

Abstracts are reviewed in two general categories: research and program. The word limit for abstracts is 250 words. Research abstracts typically include
purpose, methods, results, and conclusions from a research study. Program abstracts typically include a description of the development,
implementation, and evaluation of an injury prevention program.

Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Child Maltreatment
* Data Issues in Injury Control
* Disaster Preparedness and Response
* Emergency Transport and Care
* Evaluation of Injury Prevention Programs
* Firearm Violence
* Global Health and Injury Control
* Homicide and Suicide
* Injuries Among Minorities
* Injury Outcomes and Rehabilitation
* Injury Surveillance
* Occupational Injury
* Older Adults and Injury
* Research Design and Methods in Injury Control
* Sports and Recreational Injury
* Transportation-Related Injuries
* Violence Against Women