MOVING FROM INDIVIDUAL TO COMMUNITY LEVEL EVALUATION LESSONS LEARNED FROM…… Trending Topics in Community Health
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