8th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心成立了德克萨斯州健康差异中心，开展教育，研究和推广活动，以消除健康差异。作为其教育和外展活动的一部分，该中心在过去七年中组织了非常成功的年度健康差距会议，部分由国家少数民族健康和健康差距研究所（NIMHD）支持和资助，重点关注健康差距的不同领域。第八届健康差异年会将于2013年5月30日至31日在北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心举行。会议的总主题是“与吸烟、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和癌症有关的差异”。众所周知，吸烟、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和癌症都会对各种代表不足的少数群体人口产生有害影响。虽然这三个差距一直是研究和会议的主题，但所有这三个健康差距问题之间的相互作用并没有成为以前任何会议的焦点。我们根据社区咨询委员会的意见和反馈选择了主题，以满足社区的需求。具体重点将是医学和社区预防战略，重点是基于社区的解决方案。教育和互动演示、小组讨论和问答环节将确定挑战，并使与会者更接近于制定未来的计划。此应用程序的具体目的是：1）提高卫生保健从业人员和决策者的健康差异知识，2）作为少数民族社区传播健康信息的资源，促进社区参与健康教育和研究，并实施疾病预防活动。预期的结果是，少数民族社区的保健工作者将更多地参与，决策者将更多地认识到现有的保健差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Texas Health Science Center established the Texas Center for Health Disparities to conduct education, research and outreach activities to eliminate health disparities. As part of its education and outreach activitis, the Center has been has organized very successful annual health disparity conferences for the past seven years supported and funded in part by the National Institutes for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) focusing on different areas of health disparities. The Eighth Annual Conference on Health Disparities will be held May 30-31, 2013 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. The overall theme for the conference is "Disparities related to Smoking, HIV/AIDS and Cancer". Tobacco smoking, HIV/AIDS and cancer are all known to disproportionally affect various under- represented minority populations. While these three disparities have been the topic of research and conferences, the interplay among all these three health disparity issues has not been a focus of any previous conference. We chose the theme based on input and feedback from our Community Advisory Board in order to meet the needs of our community. Of specific focus will be Prevention Strategies in Medicine and Community with emphasis on Community Based solutions. Educational and interactive presentations, panel discussions and questions/ answer sessions will identify the challenges and bring conference attendees closer to developing a prospectus for the future. The Specific Aims of this application are: 1) Enhance health disparity knowledge of the health care practitioners and policy makers, and 2) Serve as a resource for the minority communities to disseminate health information, promote community participation in health education and research, and to implement disease prevention activities. The expected outcome will be increased participation of health care practitioners in minority communities and awareness of policy makers in the existing health disparities.