Occupational and Environmental Factors in Neurological Disease

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议举办一次为期一天的神经疾病职业和环境因素专题会议，并在主要会议日之前的下午和晚上举行一次具有教育规划的开幕式聚会和实践研讨会。会议的目标是通过关注神经疾病中的职业和环境因素，推动职业和环境健康领域的发展。它的目的是将包括医生、护士、工业卫生师和公共卫生专业人员在内的卫生保健从业者和研究人员的跨学科小组聚集在一起。通过解决与职业相关和环境引起的神经疾病相关的知识差距，这次会议将对临床实践、流行病学和实验研究以及公共政策具有重要性和相关性。会议将由公认的专家就涵盖神经疾病的职业和环境因素这一主题进行一系列专题介绍。它将把涵盖的不同主题纳入一个总体框架，该框架将解决毒物的共同结构-活性关系和机制，以及临床和流行病学评估中的共同问题。会议内容还将突出工作相关和环境造成的神经疾病和损伤的一级、二级和三级预防(包括为此制定的监管战略)。此外，该计划将包括非教学性教育体验，以进一步促进这些目标，包括动手研讨会机会和开幕式招待会，其中包括视听节目，将突出过去影响美国工人的神经毒性爆发。已经确定了职业和环境神经学领域的一个核心领导小组，并成功地进行了外联，表明有可能参加。会议将使用多种外联机制的综合战略进行宣传，其核心将是以互联网为重点，利用我们以前成功采用的方法，传递会议公告和分发初步方案。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，该会议将在拟议的会议之前结束。我们将通过结构化评估表格对与会者的教育经历进行评估，并对其进行系统分析。我们打算通过分发录音，将会议的核心内容传播到实际与会者之外。 与公共健康相关：神经性疾病和损伤是美国工人和广大公众中一组重要但未得到充分认识的职业和环境健康问题。这次会议的目标是提高职业和环境卫生专业人员，包括临床从业者、研究人员和政策制定者对这一主题的认识和扩大知识基础。

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.