Topics include the relationship between injury and risk behaviors, risk perceptions, attitudes, developmental capabilities, and social and cultural factors. Emphasizes issues of study design, measurement of psychosocial variables and injury-related outcomes, and implications of findings for further research and intervention. Student evaluation based on class participation and on an oral and written critique of a published study. The objective of this course is to inform students of current program and policy issues related to the delivery of emergency medical services, with particular emphasis on the delivery of care to the injured. An emphasis is placed on learning appropriate methodologies for EMS evaluation.
Student evaluation is based on a paper.
This course provides a link between the public health approach to occupational injury prevention, the traditions of safety science and engineering, and their relationship with ergonomics and biomechanics. The course also addresses the development and implementation of occupational injury prevention and safety programs and the methods for evaluating their impact. This course, the first of its kind to be taught at any school of public health, was offered as special studies for the first time in Fourth Term 1995. Basic biomechanical engineering principles and vocabulary important in trauma research are presented by lecture, demonstration, video, and readings. Methods for incorporating these concepts into injury epidemiological studies are discussed.