CORE Group GHPC15 October 9, 2015 SBC Workshop: Behavior Change in the Age of Complexity: Implications for Monitoring and Evaluation

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

2. Addressing Hazardous Alcohol Use in Low-Income Communities

3. 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

6. Alcohol Producers & “Community Development”

8. Different types of liquor sachets
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9. Domains of Inquiry
Price
Sexuality/
Sexual Risk
Availability
Drinking
Norms
Promotion/
Advertising
Violence
EnforcementPolicies
Gender
Packaging/
Product
Design
Laws

10. Community Mapping

16. Photo Voice
Engage youth
creatively
Encourage young
people to take control,
represent themselves
Enhance more
traditional qualitative
methods