Institute for Health Services and Disparities Research Launches NERI Upstream Website!

NERI’s Institute for Health Services and Disparities Research is proud to announce the launch of its website NERIUpstream.com!

This site is meant to serve as forum for communication, discussion, and “healthy academic debate” on timely policy issues. The site highlights NERI’s relevant work serving its mission to identify:

1. What are the root causes of health disparities? (upstream healthy public policy)
2. What’s the best way to organize effective care using 21st century new media technologies? (efficiency)
3. What works? (comparative effectiveness)

NERI Upstream takes its name from “upstream” social policy approaches to health that focus on the whole-population perspective, moving away from many dominant approaches with origins in the prevailing biomedical paradigm that focus on downstream tertiary treatments (curative medicine) and the modification of individual risk factors.

 

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