International Medical Geography Symposium; East Lansing, Michigan, summer 2013

国际医学地理学研讨会；

• 批准号: 1231467
• 负责人: Sue Grady
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1231467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Medical; Geography; Symposium; East

This award focuses on providing support to enable health and medical geography scholars and students from developing nations to attend the 15th International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS) at Michigan State University in July 2013. The theme of the 2013 IMGS will be Sustainability of Health and Health Care Systems, a theme that covers a broad range of contemporary and emerging population health needs around the world. The IMGS is a biannual meeting of health and medical geographers from countries around the world that enables researchers to discuss their recent research and teaching techniques. The first IMGS was held in 1985 in Nottingham, England, and thereafter, it has been held in the United States, Canada and European countries. There is a recognized need from within the discipline to more actively recruit health and medical geographers from developing nations, especially Africa south of the Sahara, Latin America, and central and southeast Asia in order to extend the exchange of knowledge and techniques and to provide additional learning opportunities for geography faculty and students from within those regions. NSF funding will provide support for faculty researchers and students from these underrepresented regions of the world to enable them attend the 2013 IMGS and participate in the global discourse of the discipline.The 2013 International Medical Geography Symposium will provide the opportunity for health and medical geographers from throughout the world to exchange information about the health status of their regions and their respective research in order to address these health problems. Health and medical geographers are recognized within the broader disciplines of human and veterinary medicine and public health for their use of theoretical approaches and skills that help evaluate disease diffusion and disease clusters, conduct health risk assessments and locate-allocate healthcare services. The 2013 IMGS will help improve knowledge of health around the world and the advancement of practices within the field of health and medical geography. The exchange of ideas about new education and training approaches will increase the potential to positively impact the mentoring of future health and medical geographers. The discourse among 2013 IMGS participants from developed and developing nations will increase the potential for future collaborations among health and medical geographers from around the world and will increase opportunities for future participation of scholars and students from all nations in future symposiums.

该奖项的重点是提供支持，使来自发展中国家的卫生和医学地理学者和学生参加2013年7月在密歇根州立大学举行的第15届国际医学地理研讨会（IMGS）。 2013年IMGS的主题将是健康和医疗保健系统的可持续性，这一主题涵盖了世界各地当代和新出现的人口健康需求。 IMGS是来自世界各国的健康和医学地理学家的一年两次会议，使研究人员能够讨论他们最近的研究和教学技术。第一届IMGS于1985年在英国诺丁汉举行，此后，它已在美国，加拿大和欧洲国家举行。 有一个公认的需要从学科内部更积极地招募来自发展中国家，特别是撒哈拉以南非洲，拉丁美洲，中亚和东南亚的健康和医学地理学家，以扩大知识和技术的交流，并提供额外的学习机会，地理教师和学生从这些地区。 美国国家科学基金会的资助将为来自世界上这些代表性不足的地区的教师、研究人员和学生提供支持，使他们能够参加2013年国际医学地理学大会，并参与该学科的全球讨论。2013年国际医学地理学研讨会将为来自世界各地的卫生和医学地理学家提供机会，交流有关其所在地区的卫生状况和各自研究的信息，来解决这些健康问题。 健康和医学地理学家在人类和兽医学以及公共卫生的更广泛学科中得到认可，因为他们使用理论方法和技能来帮助评估疾病扩散和疾病群，进行健康风险评估和定位分配医疗保健服务。 2013年IMGS将有助于提高世界各地的健康知识和在健康和医学地理领域的做法的进步。 关于新的教育和培训方法的思想交流将增加对未来健康和医学地理学家的指导产生积极影响的潜力。 来自发达国家和发展中国家的2013年IMGS参与者之间的讨论将增加来自世界各地的卫生和医学地理学家之间未来合作的潜力，并将增加来自所有国家的学者和学生未来参与未来研讨会的机会。