Ninth Annual Conference on Urban Environmental Health

第九届城市环境健康年会

• 批准号: 8007126
• 负责人: SUSAN KLITZMAN
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: HUNTER COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8007126
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Attention; Cities; Collaborations; Country; Crime; Development; Employee Strikes; Environment; Environmental Health; Fostering; Funding; Future; Health; Health Hazards; Health Services; International; Intervention; Journals; Mental Health; Multinational Perspectives; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Neighborhoods; New York City; Obesity; Physical activity; Public Health; Publications; Research; Risk; Sanitation; Schedule; Series; Services; Slum; Social Environment; Societies; Urban Health; Urban Population; Urbanization; abstracting; cooking; cost; health disparity; improved; posters; programs; public health relevance; symposium; urban area

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：在国际城市卫生学会（ISUH），我们越来越惊讶于城市化日益重要与城市化对健康影响缺乏系统研究之间的对比。为此，国际城市卫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城市卫生国际会议。在本提案中，我们寻求加强第九届国际会议的相关性和重要性，通过创建一个具体的会议重点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，这将有助于会议引起人们的注意，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，可以取得很大成果。在发达国家，城市的建筑环境可以通过鼓励或不鼓励日常体育活动来减轻或加剧肥胖等健康问题。社会环境更恶劣的社区会阻碍户外活动，从而进一步加剧肥胖，并对心理健康产生负面影响。在发展中国家，许多城市地区普遍存在环境健康危害：用劣质和危险材料仓促建造的贫民窟；使用生物燃料的室内烹饪；卫生服务差；以及高犯罪率。通过会议上的环境健康会议，我们建议展示关于建筑和社会环境如何影响城市人口健康的最新研究。因此，我们要求从会议总费用（35万美元）中拨出3万美元，用于资助该方案的以下环境卫生研究组成部分：1)关于城市环境卫生研究的全体会议发言人，2)关于适用于城市的环境卫生研究的同期会议，3)以城市环境卫生研究为重点的海报会议，以及4)出版《城市卫生杂志》的增刊，其中将包括关于环境卫生研究的专题文章和海报摘要。