Occupational and Environmental Factors in Neurological Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议在神经系统疾病的职业和环境因素为期一天的专题会议，加上实践研讨会和开幕式与教育节目的下午和晚上进行的主要会议一天。会议的目标是通过关注神经疾病中的职业和环境因素来推进职业和环境健康领域。它旨在汇集一个跨学科的医疗保健从业人员和研究人员，包括医生，护士，工业卫生学家和公共卫生专业人员。通过解决与职业相关和环境引起的神经系统疾病有关的知识差距，本次会议将在临床实践，流行病学和实验研究以及公共政策方面具有重要性和相关性。会议将由公认的专家就涵盖神经系统疾病中的职业和环境因素这一主题的全方位主题进行一系列专题演讲。它将把涵盖的不同主题整合到一个总体框架中，该框架将解决有毒物质的共同结构-活性关系和机制以及临床和流行病学评估中的常见问题。会议内容还将强调与工作有关的和环境引起的神经系统疾病和伤害的一级、二级和三级预防（包括这样做的监管策略）。此外，该计划将包括非说教式的教育经验，以进一步促进这些目标，包括动手研讨会的机会和开幕式招待会，包括视听节目，将突出过去影响美国工人的神经毒性爆发。职业和环境神经病学领域的核心领导者小组已经确定，成功地进行了外联，表明可能的参与。会议将采用多种外联机制的综合战略进行宣传，其核心将是基于互联网的会议通知的传输和初步计划的分发，采用我们以前成功采用的方法。我们还安排了会议的时间，以利用将在同一主办城市举行的美国公共卫生协会全国会议，在拟议的会议之前结束。我们将通过系统分析的结构化评估表格评估与会者的教育经历。我们打算通过分发录音带的方式，将会议的核心内容传播到实际与会者之外。 公共卫生相关性：神经系统疾病和损伤是美国工人和广大公众中一个重要但未得到充分重视的职业和环境健康问题。本次会议的目标是提高认识，扩大职业和环境卫生专业人员，包括临床医生，研究人员和政策制定者对这一主题的知识基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a one day thematic conference on occupational and environmental factors in neurological disease, coupled with practical workshops and an opening gathering with educational programming the afternoon and evening proceeding the main conference day. The goal of the conference is to advance the field of occupational and environmental health through a focus on occupational and environmental factors in neurological disease. It is intended to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of health care practitioners and researchers including physicians, nurses, industrial hygienists, and public health professionals. By addressing knowledge gaps relating to occupationally-related and environmentally-caused neurological disease, this conference will have importance in and relevance to clinical practice, epidemiological and experimental research, and public policy. The conference will provide a series of thematic presentations by recognized experts on a full range of topics covering the subject of occupational and environmental factors in neurological disease. It will integrate the disparate topics covered into an overarching framework that will address shared structure-activity relationships and mechanism for toxicants and common issues in clinical and epidemiological assessment. The conference content also will highlight the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of work-related and environmentally- caused neurological illness and injury (including regulatory strategies to do so). In addition, the program will includ non-didactic educational experiences to further promote these goals, including hands-on workshop opportunities and an opening reception including audiovisual programming that will highlight past neurotoxic outbreaks that impacted U.S. workers. A core group of leaders in the field of occupational and environmental neurology have been identified with outreach successfully indicating likely participation. The conference will be publicized using a combined strategy of multiple outreach mechanisms whose centerpiece will be an internet-based emphasis on the transmission of meeting announcements and the distribution of the preliminary program, using an approach we have previously employed successfully. We have also timed the meeting to leverage the national American Public Health Association meeting that will be held in the same host city, ending just before the proposed conference. We will evaluate attendees' educational experiences through structured assessment forms that will be systematically analyzed. We intend to disseminate the core content of the conference beyond its actual participants through audio-recording distribution. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Neurological illness and injury represents an important but under-appreciated group of occupational and environmental health problems among U.S. workers and the wider public. The goal of this conference is to increase awareness and broaden the knowledge base on this topic among occupational and environmental health professionals, including clinical practitioners, researchers, and policy makers.