Occupational and Environmental Factors in Neurological Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议举办为期一天的关于神经系统疾病中的职业和环境因素的主题会议，并在主会议日的下午和晚上举办实践研讨会和带有教育节目的开幕聚会。会议的目标是通过关注神经系统疾病中的职业和环境因素来推进职业和环境健康领域的发展。它的目的是聚集一个由医疗保健从业者和研究人员组成的跨学科小组，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相关的知识差距，本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意义和相关性。会议将由知名专家就涵盖神经系统疾病的职业和环境因素在内的一系列主题进行一系列专题演讲。它将涵盖的不同主题整合到一个总体框架中，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常见问题。会议内容还将重点介绍与工作相关和环境引起的神经系统疾病和损伤的一级、二级和三级预防（包括这样做的监管策略）。此外，该计划将包括非教学教育经验，以进一步促进这些目标，包括实践研讨会机会和开幕招待会，包括视听节目，重点介绍过去影响美国工人的神经毒性疫情。已经确定了职业和环境神经学领域的核心领导小组，并成功进行了外展活动，表明可能参与。会议将采用多种外展机制的综合策略进行宣传，其核心是基于互联网强调会议公告的传输和初步议程的分发，使用我们以前成功采用的方法。我们还利用美国公共卫生协会全国会议的时间安排了会议，该会议将在同一主办城市举行，并在拟议会议之前结束。我们将通过系统分析的结构化评估表来评估参与者的教育经历。我们打算通过录音分发的方式，将会议的核心内容传播到实际参与者之外。 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被充分认识的职业和环境健康问题。本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）​​对此主题的认识并扩大知识基础。

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.