Moving from Individual to Community Level Evaluation FRITZ

MOVING FROM INDIVIDUAL TO COMMUNITY LEVEL EVALUATION LESSONS LEARNED FROM……

Trending Topics in Community Health

Addressing Hazardous Alcohol Use in Low-Income Communities

Epidemiological Evaluation Paradigm focuses on individual-level pathology

Leaving many unanswered social-behavioral questions we try to address with “mixed methods.”

Yet we know that individuals live in complex social, economic and political ecosystems that shape behavioral options

Why do the health sciences have so few tried and true methods for studying communities as complex systems?

Alcohol use/abuse in low-income communities is a diagnostic example

Alcohol Producers & “Community Development”

Different types of liquor sachets

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Domains of Inquiry

Price

Sexuality/ Sexual Risk

Availability

Drinking Norms

Promotion/ Advertising

Violence

Enforcement Policies

Gender

Packaging/ Product Design

Laws

Community Mapping

Photo Voice

Engage youth creatively

Encourage young people to take control, represent themselves

Enhance more traditional qualitative methods