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Call for Abstracts: 18th Annual IHS National Research
Conference
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Call for Abstracts due March 3
18th Annual Indian Health Service (IHS) Research
Conference
April 24-26, 2006
"Discovering Pathways to Better Health for American
Indians
and Alaska
Natives"
The , "Discovering Pathways to Better Health for
American
Indians and
Alaska Natives," will enhance our ability to ensure
benefits of the
research to Native communities and peoples. The
conference
will also
examine in depth the impact of aging and mental health
research activity
in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)
communities.
While this
18th Annual Indian Health Service (IHS) Research
Conference
will focus
on aging and mental health, it will touch
on all aspects of AIAN health.
Abstracts on all topics are welcome, as long as they
concern research
by, for, or about American Indians, Alaska Natives,
First
Nations and/or
Inuit peoples. Submit your oral or poster presentation
for
the following
categories by March 3, 2006:
Access to Care, Adolescent Health, Aging, AIDS,
Alcohol and
Substance
Abuse, Alternative Healing Practices, Asthma, Cancer,
Cardiovascular
Disease, Other Chronic Illness, Continuity of
Care/Medical
Home Models,
Diabetes, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Health
Care
Administration,
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health
Services
Research,
Immunizations, Infectious Disease (e.g. RSV,
Pneumococcal
Disease, etc),
Injury Prevention, Maternal and Child Health, Mental
Health, Nutrition,
Obesity, Oral Health, Telemedicine, Traditional
Medicine,
Urban Health
and
Women's Health.
Abstracts meeting one of the following criteria will
be
given special
consideration:
* Submissions by AI/AN, First Nations, or Inuit
students.
* Research that measures the effectiveness of
innovative
health care
intervention, or that involves exemplary partnerships
between
researchers
and tribes
* Research issues common to native populations in both
Canada and the US
This conference is being co-sponsored and organized by
the
Native
Research
Network, http://www.aaip.com/nrnet/nrn.html
For more information, including instructions for
submitting
abstracts,
see
the word document posted at the top of this webpage:
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Research/events.cfm#april2006
Abstracts from last year's conference are available
at:
http://www.ihs.gov/generalweb/webapps/sitelink/site.asp?link=http://www.
aap.org/nach/InternationalMeeting.htm
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