7th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心成立了德克萨斯健康差距中心，以开展教育、研究和推广活动，以消除健康差距。作为其教育和外联活动的一部分，该中心在过去五年中成功地组织了一年一度的健康差距会议，部分得到了国家少数民族健康和健康差距中心的支持和资助，重点关注健康差距的不同领域。第七届健康差距年会将于2012年7月12日和13日在北得克萨斯大学健康科学中心举行。这次会议的总体主题是“与乳腺癌差异作斗争：前线战略！”乳房领域存在着显著的健康差距。 癌症。乳腺癌的发生在绝经前和AA妇女中是不成比例的。AA妇女患上高度侵袭性肿瘤，死亡率比其他组高。绝经前再生障碍性贫血妇女患乳腺癌的风险(33%)不仅比高加索妇女(25%)高，而且患上TNBC的风险也很高。本次会议将以国家公认的演讲者、患者、幸存者和社区演讲者为特色，并将进行互动辩论，突出突出乳腺癌方面的显著差距和克服这些差距的前线战略。具体的重点将是医学和社区的预防战略，重点是基于社区的解决方案。教育性和互动式演示、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招股说明书。这项应用的具体目的是：1)提高卫生保健从业者和政策制定者的健康差距知识；2)作为少数族裔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。预期的结果将是少数族裔社区的保健从业人员更多地参与，决策者对现有的健康差距有更多的认识。 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。消除健康差距需要充分了解 健康差距的存在以及对这一问题的最佳做法和新的解决办法。一年一度的德克萨斯健康差距会议致力于实现这些目标。

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.