551 - The Massachusetts Pediatric Injury Equity Review—A New Process for Reviewing Pediatric Injuries in Order to Prevent Them
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Unintentional injuries like auto and firearm accidents, drownings, and poisonings, are the leading causes of death in US children over age 1. Dr. Sadiqa Kendi, Division Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and a Bloomberg Fellow, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about her work on the Mass PIER project and some insights they've gained from reviewing pediatric injuries. Learn more about the project findings here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:16.9 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
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| 0:37.4 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer, Public Health On Call. |
| 0:41.1 | Today, I talk with Dr. Sadiqa Kendi, the division chief of pediatric emergency medicine |
| 0:46.1 | at Boston Medical Center and a Bloomberg fellow. |
| 0:49.8 | Dr. Kendi is the lead author of a new report on the Massachusetts Pediatric Injury Equity Review, |
| 0:55.9 | or Mass Pier, which is a process for reviewing inequities in pediatric injuries in order to prevent |
| 1:02.0 | them from happening in the first place. Let's listen. Dr. Kennedy, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:08.4 | You're an expert in pediatric injury prevention with a focus on health |
| 1:12.6 | equity. First, tell us a bit about what you see in pediatric emergency medicine and how does |
| 1:18.5 | health equity play into that? Thank you so much. So nice to talk to you today, Lindsay. I can tell you |
| 1:24.3 | that we see a lot of things in pediatric emergency medicine, but one thing that I noticed very early on in my career is that I saw a lot of injuries. And as I learned more, I realize that injuries are the leading cause of death and children over one year of age. And I think we often just think of injuries as kind of a fact of life, but severe injuries |
| 1:45.8 | are actually the number one cause of death. And so I think it's a really important issue for |
| 1:50.2 | us to think about and something that I've been thinking about for many years now. |
| 1:54.9 | And when you're talking about injuries, can you give us some examples? |
| 1:58.5 | Sure. So some of the most common types of injuries that we see that are severe are drowning, for |
| 2:03.5 | example. |
| 2:04.6 | Another is motor vehicle crashes with the number one cause of death and children between |
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