1. RESILIENT AND RESPONSIVE HEALTH SYSTEMS FOR A
CHANGING WORLD
Analysis of the Social Vulnerability in Poor Household in Cali -
Colombia
Nicolás Ortiz Ruiz MPH, Mag Sociology
November 2016
Vancouver
Project funded by the Universidad del Valle through the Internal call for research
Group Epidemiology and Population Health-GESP -- Group Management and Public Policies

2. Responsible team
• CONSTANZA DÍAZ, MPH.
• NICOLÁS ORTIZ, MPH – Mag-Sociology
Support professionals
• Roberto Carlos Luján, Sociologist
• Yenifer Orobio, Estatistical, Mag Epidemiology
• Maria Camila Bolivar, Sociologist
• Yuri Melo, Social worker
Estudent team
• Diana Faisury Mutis
• Raimer Pulgarin
• Lenin Camilo Díaz,
• Juan Felipe Velandia
Research group

3. Usually, the design, implementation and evaluation of
the public policies are sustained in statistical
information, but the people life not always coincides
with the statistics.

4. Desing Study
Qualitative approach
Objective: To analyze conditions
of social vulnerability in poor
families in the municipality of Cali
– Colombia.
 Employment/income
 Family
 Social capital
 Education
 Health
 Neighborhood
 Social protection
Quantitative
Component
75 families – 381
persons
Qualitative
Component
12 families
 Secondary sources
 Population surveys
 Social vulnerability
Index
 Interviews
 vulnerability
trajectory
1
2

5. The structure
of
opportunities
Assets
Social
Vulnerability
Liabilities
Theoretical Framework

6. 33.33
48
18.67
Percentage of households according to levels of
vulnerability, Comuna 16, Cali, 2015
Levemente vulnerables
Altamente vulnerables
Extremadamente
vulnerables
High vulnerability
Moderate vulnerability
Extreme vulnerability
Quantitative information
Marital status
Living place
Income
Social Vulnerabilility Index
118 variables: 1. Descriptive analysis
2. Exploratory factor analysis
3. Logistic Regression Model

7. Outbreaks of production
vulnerability
Quality job and
low incomes
Weakening of
social
networks
No home
ownership
Low
educational
levels

8. Methodological Combination in this study
• Measurement-explanation/comprehension. The quantitative information
allowed us to know the magnitude and distribution of social vulnerability
of a large population, and the qualitative, in the smaller groups, delve into
how persons and families live this phenomenon.
• The generic and the specific. The quantitative information allows us to
make comparisons with other populations and qualitative information
about the particularity was obtained, avoiding the universalization or
homogenization sometimes given by statistical information.
• Synchronic and diachronic. The quantitative approach offered a panoramic
picture of the phenomenon and qualitative offered the ability to track
biographies and generations.
• New indicators. The qualitative information will allowed to define new
indicators or variables to futures quantitative studies

9. Main Challenges
• Multidisciplinary work teams
• The combination of methods should start from the beginning of the
studies but should be adjusted throughout the process. It is
important to define clear questions and objectives.
• Do not ask what methods can not give or evaluate them from other
paradigms.
• Improve the quality of secondary sources and unify the surveys
variables to facilitate articulation (improve informations sistems)
.