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神经疾病职业和环境因素专题会议，并在主会议日的下午和晚上举行实践研讨会和具有教育节目的开幕聚会。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卫生领域。它旨在汇集跨学科的卫生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。会议将由公认的专家就涵盖神经系统疾病的职业和环境因素的各种主题提供一系列专题报告。它将把不同的主题整合到一个总体框架中，该框架将解决毒物共享的结构-活性关系和机制以及临床和流行病学评估中的共同问题。会议内容还将强调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（包括监管策略）。此外，该项目还将包括非教学性的教育体验，以进一步促进这些目标的实现，包括实践研讨会机会和开幕招待会，其中包括强调过去影响美国工人的神经毒性疫情的视听节目。职业和环境神经学领域的核心领导小组已被确定为成功地表明可能参与的外展。会议将采用多种外展机制的联合策略进行宣传，其核心是利用我们以前成功采用的方法，以互联网为基础，强调会议公告的传播和初步计划的分发。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全国美国公共卫生协会会议，该会议将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格来评估与会者的教育经历。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。

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.