Ninth Annual Conference on Urban Environmental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：在国际城市卫生学会（ISUH），我们越来越感到城市化的重要性日益增加，而缺乏对城市化对健康影响的系统研究之间的对比。为此，国际大学生联合会负责组织一系列关于城市卫生的国际会议，并正在组织定于2010年10月27日至29日在纽约市举行的第九届国际城市卫生会议。 在本提案中，我们寻求通过创建一个特定的会议集中和跟踪国家环境健康科学研究所（NIEHS）赞助的和NIEHS相关的研究证据，以提高第九届国际会议的相关性和重要性，这将有助于会议提请注意并促进未来的研究合作，特别关注解决城市地区的健康差距。 我们认为，通过交流关于城市和保健服务的物质和社会环境的想法，包括国际观点，可以获得很多好处。在发达国家，城市的建筑环境可以通过鼓励或阻止日常体育活动来缓解和加剧肥胖等健康问题。社会环境更有害的社区会通过阻碍户外活动进一步加剧肥胖，并对心理健康产生负面影响。在发展中国家，环境健康危害是许多城市地区的地方病：仓促建造的贫民窟，使用劣质和危险的材料;室内用生物燃料做饭;卫生服务差;犯罪率高。通过会议的环境健康会议，我们建议展示当前关于建筑和社会环境如何影响城市人口健康的研究。因此，我们请求从会议总费用中拨款30 000美元（350，000美元），以资助该计划的以下环境健康研究组成部分：1）关于城市环境卫生研究的全体发言人，2）关于适用于城市的环境卫生研究的并行会议，3）以城市环境卫生研究为重点的海报会议，出版《城市健康杂志》增刊，其中将包括关于环境健康研究的专题文章和海报摘要。 公共卫生相关性：通过在世界领先的城市之一举行这次会议，我们打算培养一个国际研究小组，共同提高对城市居民面临的共同健康风险的认识，并影响地球仪有效公共卫生干预措施的发展。来自不同国家的观点和经验教训值得分享。我们已经举办了六次会议，参加人数众多，并期待着继续举办这一系列会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): At the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH), we are increasingly struck by the contrast between the growing importance of urbanization and the lack of systematic study of the impact of urbanization on health. For this reason, ISUH has been responsible for organizing a series of international conferences on urban health, and is organizing the Ninth International Conference on Urban Health, scheduled to occur during October 27-29, 2010 in New York City. In this proposal, we seek to enhance the relevance and importance of the Ninth International Conference by creating a specific conference concentration and track on the National Institute Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)-sponsored and NIEHS-pertinent research evidence that will help the conference draw attention to and foster future research collaborations with a specific focus on addressing health disparities in urban areas. We assert that much can be gained through the exchange of ideas about the physical and social environments of cities and health service, including an international perspective. In the developed world, the built environment of cities can both mitigate and intensify health issues such as obesity, by encouraging or discouraging daily physical activity. Neighborhoods with more toxic social environments can further exacerbate obesity by discouraging outdoor activity and can negatively affect mental health. In the developing world, environmental health hazards are endemic to many urban areas: hastily built slums with poor and dangerous materials; indoor cooking with biofuels; poor sanitation services; and high crime rates. Through environmental health sessions at the conference, we propose to showcase current research on how the built and social environment affects the health of urban populations. As such, we are requesting $30,000 of the total cost of the conference ($350,000), to fund the following environmental health research components of the program: 1) plenary speakers on urban environmental health research, 2) concurrent sessions on environmental health research as applies to cities, 3) poster sessions focused on urban environmental health research, and 4) publication of a supplement of the Journal of Urban Health that will include featured articles and poster abstracts on environmental health research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: By holding this conference in one of the leading cities in the world, we intend to foster an international research group to collectively improve the understanding of the common health risks faced by urban residents and to influence the development of effective public health interventions across the globe. Perspectives and lessons from different countries can be valuable to share. We have now held six prior conferences that have been well attended and look forward to continuing this series.