8th 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健康差异中心，开展教育、研究和外展活动，以消除健康差异。作为其教育和推广活动的一部分，该中心在过去七年中非常成功地组织了年度健康差异会议，该会议部分由国家少数民族健康和健康差异研究所（NIMHD）支持和资助，重点关注健康差异的不同领域。第八届健康差异年会将于2013年5月30日至31日在北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心举行。会议的总主题是“与吸烟、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和癌症有关的差异”。众所周知，吸烟、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和癌症对各种代表性不足的少数民族人口的影响不成比例。虽然这三种差异一直是研究和会议的主题，但这三种健康差异问题之间的相互作用并不是以往任何会议的重点。我们根据社区谘询委员会的意见和反馈选择主题，以切合社区的需要。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办法。教育和互动演讲，小组讨论和问答环节将确定挑战，并使与会者更接近制定未来的招股说明书。本应用程序的具体目的是：1)提高卫生保健从业者和政策制定者对健康差异的认识；2)作为少数民族社区传播健康信息、促进社区参与健康教育和研究以及实施疾病预防活动的资源。预期的结果将是少数民族社区保健从业人员的更多参与和决策者对现有保健差距的认识。

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 seven years supported and funded in part by the National Institutes for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) focusing on different areas of health disparities. The Eighth Annual Conference on Health Disparities will be held May 30-31, 2013 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. The overall theme for the conference is "Disparities related to Smoking, HIV/AIDS and Cancer". Tobacco smoking, HIV/AIDS and cancer are all known to disproportionally affect various under- represented minority populations. While these three disparities have been the topic of research and conferences, the interplay among all these three health disparity issues has not been a focus of any previous conference. We chose the theme based on input and feedback from our Community Advisory Board in order to meet the needs of our community. 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.