VII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AUXOLOGY

描述（改编自申请人的描述）：资金是 本提案要求协助支持第七届大会， 1997年将在宾夕法尼亚大学和 费城儿童医院。 本次大会的主题是儿童 在上下文中。 从NIH申请的资金将主要用于 三种方式：1）为受邀演讲者提供差旅费和每日津贴， 2）帮助支付新调查员出席会议的费用， （三）协助颁布《中华人民共和国国家科学技术法》; 约300名讲师（全体会议和专题讨论会）、论文和海报 将在会议期间提出。 特别是，本届大会将向一个国际卫生机构提交 专家和基础科学家提供关于 儿童生长，对造成不同生长结果的因素 由于遗传、内分泌和生态原因， 对患有特定疾病的儿童的治疗反应， 公共卫生干预措施的结果，以及对增长的评估 在临床和国际生长监测计划中的地位。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant s Description): Funding is requested in this proposal to assist in the support of the VII Congress of Human Auxology to be held in 1997 at the University of Pennsylvania and the children s Hospital of Philadelphia. The theme of this Congress is Children in Context. The funds are requested from NIH will be used primarily in three ways: 1) To provide travel and per diem for invited lecturers from the USA; 2) To help defray the costs of attendance of new investigators from the medical and basic sciences; 3) To assist in the promulgation of the approximately 300 lecturers (plenary and symposium), papers, and posters which will be presented during the course of the meeting. In particular, this Congress will present to an international body of health professionals and basic scientists the information on the mechanisms of growth of children, on factors responsible for differential growth outcomes resulting from genetic, endocrinological, and ecological causes, on responses to treatment of children with specific diseases states and as a result of public health interventions, and on the assessment of growth status in the clinic and in international programs of growth monitoring.