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TSC at APHA: Traffic Safety Center staff participation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, "Public Health without Borders," October 25-29, 2008, in San Diego, is detailed below, along with links to TSC research pages on the same subject.

List of TSC Papers and Presentations at APHA 2008 (click on title to see description on APHA Web site, as well as links to session details)

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Barriers Older Adults Face When Accessing Public Transportation: Survey Results and Travel Training Evaluation
Rhianna JoIris Babka, MSW,
Jill F. Cooper, MSW, Traffic Safety Center, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Go to Barriers to Transit research page on TSC site.

Monday, October 27, 2008

You can take the people out of the car, but you can't take the car out of the people…or can you? How ten older adults have transitioned from the private automobile to public transit—and the role for social work
Rhianna JoIris Babka, MSW, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley

A methodology for geocoding California collision data
John M. Bigham,
Thomas M. Rice, MPH, PhD,
Junhak Lee,
Swati Pande, and
David R. Ragland, PhD, MPH, Traffic Safety Center, University of California, Berkeley
Go to Geocoding research page on TSC site.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Updated estimates of the effectiveness of child safety seats, 1996-2005
Thomas M. Rice, MPH, PhD, Traffic Safety Center, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Craig Anderson, DHSc, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA

Booster seat and seat belt effectiveness among children ages 4-8
Thomas M. Rice, MPH, PhD, Traffic Safety Center, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Craig Anderson, DHSc, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA

Trends in fatal motorcycle crashes: California, 1988-2006
Craig Anderson, DHSc, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA
Thomas M. Rice, MPH, PhD, Traffic Safety Center, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA