Conference Objectives/Outcomes
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Explore partnerships and strategies that promote equitable, sustainable, and culturally sensitive health care actions to address current and future local and global health challenges.
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Identify novel educational and technological strategies to prepare qualified and culturally competent healthcare workers.
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Explore the influence of social determinants (environment, education, population density, ethnicity, culture, etc.) on the global health pandemic.
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Discuss how environmental, social, political and economic policies affect health outcomes.
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Apply transcultural theories and strategies to address current global health crises (displacement and migration).
Information for consideration:
- TCNS encourages and accepts submissions from multiple healthcare disciplines.
- TCNS encourages and accepts both qualitative and quantitative research submissions.
- TCNS encourages diversity of submission topics.
- TCNS encourages and accepts submission from students, clinical practice, research, administration and education.
- TCNS encourages diversity of theories and theorists, frameworks, and models.
Abstract Submission Information:
- Abstracts must address the conference theme and objectives.
- Abstracts must be blinded.
- Abstracts must be submitted through the secure on-line system.
- Abstract must be limited to 300-500 words. References included in the body of the abstract only. No reference list should be included.
- Research and Quality Improvement(QI) Project presentations are required to have undergone an IRB review
- Research and other presentations of indigenous populations must have approval from the council/governing body of the indigenous communities. If it is research, then IRB approval from the author's institution is also required.
- Only submissions with completed research will be accepted for podium presentations. That is, if a submission to any category includes results of an investigation, only completed research will be accepted for a podium presentation. On the other hand, if the presentation falls within a category other than research, and does not include research, then there is no such requirement.
- Research based presentation should use the introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD) structure.
- Posters may include pilot projects, ongoing research, preliminary analyses, literature reviews or other non-research projects.
- Abstracts should be submitted for new work, not presented elsewhere. Abstracts must be an original idea, concept, an improvement or revision of an old idea/concept. If the presentation was only to a local community, such as one’s home institution or a local chapter, it can be submitted to our international conference.
- Non-research symposium presentation may be submitted.
- Each abstract should include a section on significance or relevance to the development of transcultural knowledge.
- Abstract submission deadline midnight Eastern Daylight Time on April 15, 2021.
- Questions can be directed to staff@tcns.org.
Sample Abstract and Evaluation Criteria:
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