7th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心成立了德克萨斯州健康差异中心，开展教育，研究和推广活动，以消除健康差异。作为其教育和外展活动的一部分，该中心在过去五年中组织了非常成功的年度健康差距会议，部分由国家少数民族健康和健康差距中心（NCMHD）支持和资助，重点关注健康差距的不同领域。第七届健康差异年会将于2012年7月12日和13日在北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心举行。会议的总体主题是“与乳腺癌差距作斗争：前线战略！".在乳房方面存在着惊人的健康差距 癌乳腺癌的发生率在绝经前和AA妇女中不成比例。AA妇女发展高度侵袭性肿瘤，死亡率高于其他群体。绝经前AA女性不仅患乳腺癌的风险（33%）高于白人女性（25%），而且患TNBC的风险也很高。本次会议将有全国公认的发言人，患者，幸存者和社区发言人，以及互动式辩论，突出了显着的差距和一线战略，以克服这些差距在乳腺癌。具体重点将是医学和社区预防战略，重点是基于社区的解决方案。教育和互动演示、小组讨论和问答环节将确定挑战，并使与会者更接近于制定未来的计划。此应用程序的具体目的是：1）提高卫生保健从业人员和决策者的健康差异知识，2）作为少数民族社区传播健康信息的资源，促进社区参与健康教育和研究，并实施疾病预防活动。预期的结果是，少数民族社区的保健工作者将更多地参与，决策者将更多地认识到现有的保健差距。 公共卫生相关性：健康差距是对美国人健康和福祉的重大挑战。要消除健康差距，就必须充分了解 存在的健康差距以及最佳做法和解决问题的新办法。年度德克萨斯州健康差距会议讨论了这些目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Texas Health Science Center established the Texas Center for Health Disparities to conduct education, research and outreach activities to eliminate health disparities. As part of its education and outreach activitis, the Center has been has organized very successful annual health disparity conferences for the past five years supported and funded in part by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) focusing on different areas of health disparities. The Seventh Annual Conference on Health Disparities will be held July 12th and 13th, 2012 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. The overall theme for the conference is "Battling Breast Cancer Disparities: Frontline Strategies!". Striking health disparities exist in the area of breast cancer. Occurrence of breast cancer is disproportionate in premenopausal and AA women. AA women develop highly aggressive tumors and have higher mortality rate than other groups. Premenopausal AA women are not only at a higher risk of breast cancer (33%) compared to Caucasian women (25%), but also are at a high risk of developing TNBC. This conference will feature nationally recognized speakers, patients, survivors and community speakers, and interactive debates highlighting the striking disparities and frontline strategies to overcome thes disparities in breast cancer. Of specific focus will be Prevention Strategies in Medicine and Community with emphasis on Community Based solutions. Educational and interactive presentations, panel discussions and questions/ answer sessions will identify the challenges and bring conference attendees closer to developing a prospectus for the future. The Specific Aims of this application are: 1) Enhance health disparity knowledge of the health care practitioners and policy makers, and 2) Serve as a resource for the minority communities to disseminate health information, promote community participation in health education and research, and to implement disease prevention activities. The expected outcome will be increased participation of health care practitioners in minority communities and awareness of policy makers in the existing health disparities. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Health disparities are a significant challenge to the health and well being of Americans. Elimination of health disparities necessitates a full understanding of the existence of health disparities as well as best practices and novel solutions to the problem. The annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities addresses these goals.