ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS

拟议的两天半会议将在环境保护局举行。 职业健康科学研究所（EOHSI），位于 罗格斯大学/新泽西医学和牙科大学（UMDNJ）-罗伯特·伍德 2000年6月21日至23日，约翰逊医学院。 与会者将 讨论环境暴露之间的已知和潜在关系， 各种地方性/流行性健康问题，其特点是医学上 无法解释的身体症状 会议形式包括一个半 为期几天的讲座和教学介绍，旨在提供一个初步的 统一命名法和引入证候分类法。 两 各有半天专门讨论、确定和报告 该领域的三个潜在的主要研究领域。 讨论组 将负责解决三个主要问题的任务：1）性质 环境暴露与症状之间关系的机制 无明显疾病，2）确定最佳疾病分类学 症状复合物的分类，和3）实验/流行病学 有助于解释环境和社会心理的研究 对这些身体疾病综合症的贡献。 11个国内的和3个 国际贡献者来自学术界、州和联邦 政府的 参与者将介绍当前对以下问题的思考： 流行病学观察、分类、心理社会和生物学 机制等 根据以往组织会议的经验 在EOHSI的这种类型，大约有100名当地和国家的与会者， 预期。 组织者预计提交的会议记录， 会议发表在环境健康科学。 的总目标 会议将为协调和 环境/身体综合征的分类，目前违背了医学 诊断. 此外，在讨论了该领域的问题之后， 组织者希望找出研究的差距和可能的途径， 调查

The proposed two-and-one-half day conference will be held at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) located at Rutgers/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School on June 21-23, 2000. The conference participants will discuss known and potential relationships between environmental exposures and various endemic/epidemic health concerns characterized by medically unexplained physical symptoms. The conference format includes one-and-a-half days of lectures and didactic presentations aimed at providing an initial consensus on nomenclature and introducing classification of syndromes. Two separate half-days are devoted to the discussion, identification and reporting of three potentially major areas of research in the field. Discussion groups will be charged with the task of addressing three major topics: 1) the nature and mechanism(s) of relationships between environmental exposures and symptoms without apparent disease, 2) determination of optimal nosological classification of symptom complexes, and 3) experiments/epidemiological studies that would aid in the interpretation of environmental and psychosocial contributions to these physical disease complexes. Eleven domestic and three international contributors are drawn from academia, State and Federal government. Contributors will present aspects of current thinking on epidemiologic observation, classification, psycho-social and biological mechanisms. Based on previous experience with the organization of conferences of this type at EOHSI, approximately 100 local and national attendees are anticipated. The organizers anticipate submission of the proceedings of the meeting for publication in Environmental Health Sciences. The overall goal of the conference is to provide a point of departure for the harmonization and classification of environmental/physical syndromes that currently defy medical diagnosis. Furthermore, following discussion of the issues in the field the organizers hope to identify gaps in research and possible avenues of investigation.