Recorded: EIP 2015 ● Language: English ● Duration: 37 minutes ● Topic: Adolescent Medicine

     
 

Speaker: WILLIAM PICKETT, Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada

  
     
  Learning Objectives: At the end of the Session participants will: (1) understand the basic aspects of the epidemiology of fatal and non-fatal injury among young people in a large number of countries; (2) learn the latest trends in the occurrence of injury over time, and understand possible determinants of the observed trends; and (3) understand the possible opportunities for prevention, as inferred from these descriptive findings.