ICUH - 4th Annual Conference

描述(由申请人提供)： 第四届国际城市卫生会议将促进就城市的自然和社会环境以及卫生服务交流意见。会议将于2005年10月26日至28日在加拿大多伦多举行。我们鼓励任何对城市健康感兴趣的人参与，包括研究人员、临床医生、社区组织和政府机构等。通过药物滥用跟踪，我们建议展示当前关于城市环境/人口中药物滥用的研究以及NIDA研究组合的应用方面，以努力展示城市环境下潜在的国际适用的研究与实践合作模式。同样，城市的各个方面被认为有助于心理健康的影响(例如，城市对许多居民来说压力很大，可能会导致精神疾病)，但城市提供了许多可以预防或治疗精神疾病的支助服务和社会结构。因此，我们要求大约60,000美元用于资助该计划的以下药物滥用和精神健康研究部分：1)关于药物滥用和精神健康研究的全体演讲者2)关于药物滥用和精神健康研究的并行会议3)侧重于药物滥用和精神健康研究的海报会议4)出版《城市健康特别杂志》，其中将包括有关药物滥用和精神健康研究的专题文章和海报摘要这次会议的目标是培育一个国际研究小组，以共同提高对城市居民面临的常见健康风险的理解，并影响全球有效公共卫生干预措施的发展。我们现在已经举行了三次会议，出席人数很多，并期待着继续这一系列会议。关于药物滥用和精神健康的问题已经出现在以前的会议上，是这项努力的关键部分。这些跟踪将有助于促进与会者之间在每个领域的研究人员之间的跨学科合作，这些与会者对城市环境如何在药物滥用和影响心理健康中发挥作用以及城市环境的特征如何有助于干预感兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Fourth International Conference on Urban Health will facilitate an exchange of ideas about the physical and social environments of cities and health service. The conference will take place October 26-28, 2005 in Toronto, Canada. We encourage participation from anyone interested in urban health, including researchers, clinicians, community-based organizations, and government agencies, among others. Through a drug abuse track, we propose to showcase current research on substance abuse in urban environments/populations and applied aspects of NIDA's research portfolio in an effort to showcase potentially internationally applicable models of research-to-practice collaborations for urban setting. Likewise, aspects of cities are considered to contribute to mental health affects, (e.g., cities are stressful for many residents, possibly contributing to mental illness), yet cities offer many support services and social structures that can be preventive or therapeutic for mental illness. As such, we are requesting approximately $60,000 to fund the following drug abuse and mental health research components of the program: 1) Plenary speakers on drug abuse and mental health research 2) Concurrent sessions on drug abuse and mental health research 3) Poster sessions focused on drug abuse and mental health research 4) Publication of special Journal of Urban Health that will include featured articles and poster abstracts on drug abuse and mental health research The goal of the conference is to foster an international research group to collectively improve the understanding of the common health risks faced by urban residents, and to influence the development of effective public health interventions across the globe. We have now held three prior conferences that have been well attended and look forward to continuing this series. The tracks on drug abuse and mental health have been present in earlier meetings and are critical parts of this effort. These tracks will help to foster interdisciplinary collaborations among researchers in each of these areas among attendees who are interested in how urban settings play a role in drug abuse and impact mental health and how features of urban settings may lend themselves to interventions.