I B Pless
Biographic Data
| ID | 5409853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I B Pless |
| GIVEN NAMES | I B |
| FAMILY NAME | Pless |
| SIGNATURE | PLESS I B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montreal Children's Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Impact of a Celebrity Death on Children’s Injury-related Emergency Room Visits
Research Consortium on Children with Chronic Conditions (RCCCC)
Children's exposure to traffic and pedestrian injuries
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to estimate children's exposure to traffic (number of streets crossed) and to determine the role of exposure in pedestrian injury. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of 4080 first- and fourth-grade children in 43 Montreal schools. RESULTS: When analyzed by police district, injury and exposure rates were positively correlated (r2 = 0.53). Crossings were similar by sex but increased…
Pless Responds
Pless Responds I. B. Pless CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.4.591-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Pediatric mortality and hospital use in Canada and the United States, 1971 through 1987
Since 1971 pediatric mortality rates have decreased markedly but differently in Canada and the United States. These trends were examined in light of changes in hospital use and health care financing. Annual mortality and hospital use rates for children aged 14 years and younger were calculated. Between 1971 and 1987, all-cause mortality in Canada fell from 165 to 74 per 100,000; the American rate fell from 172 to 96 per 100,000. American hospital…
Unintentional childhood injury--where the buck should stop
A case-control study of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries in childhood
We identified children ages 0 to 14 years injured in traffic as pedestrians or bicyclists in Montreal, Canada. Two hundred children with injuries who received a score of 2 or more on the Maximum Abbreviated Injury Severity scale were considered as cases and compared with 400 uninjured children seen in the same hospitals for non-traumatic reasons. Systematic, blinded interviews and tests were conducted with parents to determine the role of a serie…
The epidemiology of road accidents in childhood
We report the incidence of traffic injuries to children in Montreal: 33.4 per 10,000, 57 per cent pedestrians, 24.5 per cent passengers, and 18.4 per cent bicyclists. Nearly 20 per cent were hospitalized and 1.2 per cent died. One-third had MAIS scores of 2 or more with the highest rate of severe injuries found among pedestrians. Pedestrian and bicycle (but not passenger) injuries in low income areas were four to nine times greater than those in …
The Role of Health Education in the Prevention of Injuries to Children
This paper summarizes and assesses studies published over the past two decades describing the effects of health education on the prevention of childhood injuries. The definition of health education here includes patient education as well as aspects of legislation and regulation. A critical distinction is made between studies that use reported changes in behavior or knowledge as end points, and those that use either observed changes in behavior or…
The family as a resource unit in health care
The organization and evaluation of a computer-assisted, centralized immunization registry
The rationale for, and establishment of, a computer-assisted, centralized immunization registry are described. This registry was created to improve the quality and quantity of information regarding immunization status for a defined population receiving primary care from a variety of providers, principally public clinics and private practitioners. An evaluation of the feasibility of the registry after one year's function shows that 93 per cent of …
Ministry to families of chronically ill children
End preferential treatment
End preferential treatment. I B PlessCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.302 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A measure of family functioning and its application
Attitudes of rural physicians toward the medical care of migrant farm workers, crippled children and the elderly
Attitudes of rural physicians toward the medical care of migrant farm workers, crippled children and the elderly. T Dean, E Borkan, and I B PlessCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.11.2195 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Childhood asthma
Epidemiologists with an interest in bronchial asthma, have given little attention to the psychiatric aspects of this condition, particularly as it occurs in childhood. Clinical impressions, rather than the results of systematic studies, are responsible for the fact that some paediatricians and psychiatrists have come to view the personality of the asthmatic child in terms of a stereotype engendered by a particular type of mother-child relationshi…
A measure of family functioning and its application
A case-control study of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries in childhood
We identified children ages 0 to 14 years injured in traffic as pedestrians or bicyclists in Montreal, Canada. Two hundred children with injuries who received a score of 2 or more on the Maximum Abbreviated Injury Severity scale were considered as cases and compared with 400 uninjured children seen in the same hospitals for non-traumatic reasons. Systematic, blinded interviews and tests were conducted with parents to determine the role of a serie…
Unintentional childhood injury--where the buck should stop
The epidemiology of road accidents in childhood
We report the incidence of traffic injuries to children in Montreal: 33.4 per 10,000, 57 per cent pedestrians, 24.5 per cent passengers, and 18.4 per cent bicyclists. Nearly 20 per cent were hospitalized and 1.2 per cent died. One-third had MAIS scores of 2 or more with the highest rate of severe injuries found among pedestrians. Pedestrian and bicycle (but not passenger) injuries in low income areas were four to nine times greater than those in …
The Role of Health Education in the Prevention of Injuries to Children
This paper summarizes and assesses studies published over the past two decades describing the effects of health education on the prevention of childhood injuries. The definition of health education here includes patient education as well as aspects of legislation and regulation. A critical distinction is made between studies that use reported changes in behavior or knowledge as end points, and those that use either observed changes in behavior or…
Children's exposure to traffic and pedestrian injuries
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to estimate children's exposure to traffic (number of streets crossed) and to determine the role of exposure in pedestrian injury. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of 4080 first- and fourth-grade children in 43 Montreal schools. RESULTS: When analyzed by police district, injury and exposure rates were positively correlated (r2 = 0.53). Crossings were similar by sex but increased…
Pediatric mortality and hospital use in Canada and the United States, 1971 through 1987
Since 1971 pediatric mortality rates have decreased markedly but differently in Canada and the United States. These trends were examined in light of changes in hospital use and health care financing. Annual mortality and hospital use rates for children aged 14 years and younger were calculated. Between 1971 and 1987, all-cause mortality in Canada fell from 165 to 74 per 100,000; the American rate fell from 172 to 96 per 100,000. American hospital…
Impact of a Celebrity Death on Children’s Injury-related Emergency Room Visits
The family as a resource unit in health care
The organization and evaluation of a computer-assisted, centralized immunization registry
The rationale for, and establishment of, a computer-assisted, centralized immunization registry are described. This registry was created to improve the quality and quantity of information regarding immunization status for a defined population receiving primary care from a variety of providers, principally public clinics and private practitioners. An evaluation of the feasibility of the registry after one year's function shows that 93 per cent of …
Childhood asthma
Epidemiologists with an interest in bronchial asthma, have given little attention to the psychiatric aspects of this condition, particularly as it occurs in childhood. Clinical impressions, rather than the results of systematic studies, are responsible for the fact that some paediatricians and psychiatrists have come to view the personality of the asthmatic child in terms of a stereotype engendered by a particular type of mother-child relationshi…
Attitudes of rural physicians toward the medical care of migrant farm workers, crippled children and the elderly
Attitudes of rural physicians toward the medical care of migrant farm workers, crippled children and the elderly. T Dean, E Borkan, and I B PlessCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.11.2195 Published Online: August 29, 2011
A measure of family functioning and its application
End preferential treatment
End preferential treatment. I B PlessCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.4.302 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Ministry to families of chronically ill children
The organization and evaluation of a computer-assisted, centralized immunization registry
The rationale for, and establishment of, a computer-assisted, centralized immunization registry are described. This registry was created to improve the quality and quantity of information regarding immunization status for a defined population receiving primary care from a variety of providers, principally public clinics and private practitioners. An evaluation of the feasibility of the registry after one year's function shows that 93 per cent of …
The family as a resource unit in health care
The epidemiology of road accidents in childhood
We report the incidence of traffic injuries to children in Montreal: 33.4 per 10,000, 57 per cent pedestrians, 24.5 per cent passengers, and 18.4 per cent bicyclists. Nearly 20 per cent were hospitalized and 1.2 per cent died. One-third had MAIS scores of 2 or more with the highest rate of severe injuries found among pedestrians. Pedestrian and bicycle (but not passenger) injuries in low income areas were four to nine times greater than those in …
The Role of Health Education in the Prevention of Injuries to Children
This paper summarizes and assesses studies published over the past two decades describing the effects of health education on the prevention of childhood injuries. The definition of health education here includes patient education as well as aspects of legislation and regulation. A critical distinction is made between studies that use reported changes in behavior or knowledge as end points, and those that use either observed changes in behavior or…
A case-control study of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries in childhood
We identified children ages 0 to 14 years injured in traffic as pedestrians or bicyclists in Montreal, Canada. Two hundred children with injuries who received a score of 2 or more on the Maximum Abbreviated Injury Severity scale were considered as cases and compared with 400 uninjured children seen in the same hospitals for non-traumatic reasons. Systematic, blinded interviews and tests were conducted with parents to determine the role of a serie…
Unintentional childhood injury--where the buck should stop
Pless Responds
Pless Responds I. B. Pless CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.85.4.591-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Pediatric mortality and hospital use in Canada and the United States, 1971 through 1987
Since 1971 pediatric mortality rates have decreased markedly but differently in Canada and the United States. These trends were examined in light of changes in hospital use and health care financing. Annual mortality and hospital use rates for children aged 14 years and younger were calculated. Between 1971 and 1987, all-cause mortality in Canada fell from 165 to 74 per 100,000; the American rate fell from 172 to 96 per 100,000. American hospital…
Children's exposure to traffic and pedestrian injuries
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to estimate children's exposure to traffic (number of streets crossed) and to determine the role of exposure in pedestrian injury. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of 4080 first- and fourth-grade children in 43 Montreal schools. RESULTS: When analyzed by police district, injury and exposure rates were positively correlated (r2 = 0.53). Crossings were similar by sex but increased…
Research Consortium on Children with Chronic Conditions (RCCCC)
Impact of a Celebrity Death on Children’s Injury-related Emergency Room Visits
Medicine (15 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (5 works) · Injury prevention (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Medical emergency (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Occupational safety and health (4 works)