Transforming Women's Health: Discovery, Development, and Delivery

描述(申请人提供)：妇女的健康受到生物、行为、文化、社会经济和环境因素的影响。此外，与口腔健康状况差(即牙周炎；口腔骨质流失；龋齿)有关的几种口腔-全身联系包括各种传染性疾病(艾滋病毒/艾滋病)、慢性(心血管疾病)、行为(饮食失调)、社会心理(压力)和社会经济健康状况(贫困)。尽管《健康人2020》和妇女健康研究办公室强调了扩大妇女口腔系统研究的重要性，但学科之间和学科之间的合作很少。特别是在佛罗里达州，女性的口腔健康差距很明显：与美国女性相比，孕妇在健康结果方面的不良发生率更高(即婴儿死亡率、低出生体重、早产)，并且不太可能去看牙医。因此，我们建议(佛罗里达州)召开一次独特的、重点关注的、以地区为基础的(佛罗里达州)会议，旨在解决女性特有的复杂的口腔系统健康问题，并将公共卫生、医学、牙科、护理、制药和社会科学的研究人员、提供者和政策专家聚集在一起。这一范式转变在南佛罗里达大学(USF)通过创建妇女健康跨学科研究中心(CTR-WH)而制度化，该中心由PI共同指导。通过跨学科的方法，拟议的会议将促进以患者为中心的协作护理，这有可能改善医疗保健的可及性、质量、安全性、效率和有效性。拟议的会议将侧重于与口腔-系统研究(研究开发)相关的新证据和差距，强调需要跨学科方法和团队科学来降低发病率和死亡率(研究设计和方法)，并传播新的发现和技术，以改善卫生保健的可及性、质量和结果(传播和实施)。此外，还将讨论卫生服务研究(例如，卫生信息技术、预防和护理管理；卫生保健创新和新兴领域)，包括交流和应用技术的机会，以改进口腔系统健康状况的预防、早期发现和治疗。在成人学习和团队科学的基础上，与会者将参加以技能为基础的讲习班、与全国知名演讲者的问答会议、小组讨论和小组圆桌会议，以实现会议目标。将通过定性和定量的方法对会议进行评估，以确定达到学习目标的程度、教/学方法的有效性、会议材料的有用性和与会者的满意度。会议记录将通过在CTR-WH网站上张贴、同行评议的科学期刊手稿、公共卫生媒体来源的简短文章以及地区、州和全国会议来传播，以确保佛罗里达州和其他地区的利益攸关方了解会议结果。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的会议旨在通过将来自公共卫生、医学和牙科等多个学科的研究人员、从业者、政策制定者和其他关键利益攸关方聚集在一起，来改变妇女的健康。通过全国知名的演讲者、研讨会、小组讨论和小组圆桌会议，这次会议将通过跨学科的方法解决复杂的妇女口腔系统健康状况。这样一种研究、实践和政策的方法对于改善健康和减少佛罗里达州及以后妇女一生中的健康差距是必要的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Women's health is influenced by biological, behavioral, cultural, socio-economic and environmental factors. Moreover, several oral-systemic linkages associated with poor oral health (i.e. periodontitis; oral bone loss; dental caries) that solely or disproportionally affect women include various infectious (HIV/AIDS), chronic (cardiovascular disease), behavioral (eating disorders), psychosocial (stress) and socio-economic health conditions (poverty). Although the importance of expanding women's oral-systemic research has been highlighted by Healthy People 2020 and The Office of Research on Women's Health, little collaboration between and among disciplines occur. Specifically in Florida, women's oral-health disparities are evident: pregnant women have higher adverse rates in health outcomes (i.e. infant mortality, low birth weight, preterm birth) and are less likely to isit a dentist compared to women in the U.S. Thus, we propose a unique, focused, regionally-based (State of Florida) conference, "Transforming Women's Health: Discovery, Development and Delivery," which aims to address complex oral-systemic health issues specific to women and bring together researchers, providers and policy experts in public health, medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and the social sciences. This paradigm shift has been institutionalized at the University of South Florida (USF) by the creation of the Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Women's Health (CTR-WH), Co-Directed by the PI. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the proposed conference will facilitate patient-centered collaborative care that has the potential to improve health care access, quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness. The proposed conference will focus on the emerging evidence and gaps related to oral-systemic research (research development), highlight the need for a transdisciplinary approach and team science to decrease morbidity and mortality (research design and methodology), and disseminate novel findings and technologies to improve health care access, quality and outcomes (dissemination and implementation). Moreover, health services research (e.g., health IT, prevention and care management; health care innovations and emerging areas) will be discussed, including opportunities for communication and application of technology to improve prevention, early detection and treatment of oral-systemic health conditions. Based on adult learning and team science, participants will be engaged in skill-based workshops, question-and-answer sessions with nationally renowned speakers, panel discussion and group roundtables in order to meet conference aims. Conference sessions will be evaluated via qualitative and quantitative methods to determine the extent to which learning objective are met, the effectiveness of teaching/learning methods, the usefulness of conference material, and participant satisfaction. Conference proceedings will be disseminated through posting on the CTR-WH website, peer-reviewed scientific journal manuscripts, brief articles in public health media sources, and at regional, state, and national conferences to ensure findings reach stakeholders in Florida and beyond. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed conference aims to transform women's health by bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers and other key stakeholders from multiple disciplines such as public health, medicine and dentistry. Through nationally renowned speakers, workshops, panel discussions and group roundtables, this conference will address complex women's oral-systemic health conditions through a transdisciplinary approach. Such an approach to research, practice and policy is necessary to improve health and decrease disparities in women's health across the lifespan in Florida and beyond.