...Because it gives a bigger picture
Supporting children one by one can help individual children. But just one small change of an entire community can make a big difference to many children.
The AEDI is a population measure.
1) It gathers information about every child
2) It sorts the information according to where the children live, then
3) It reports the information for each community.
Working at a community level: a case study
To reduce smoking, counselling individuals to quit is part of the solution. But the population approach used in Australia in recent years has been effective at reducing Australian’s smoking habits. Changes such as:
- banning tobacco advertising
- banning smoking in work places, bars and restaurants, and
- raising the price of cigarettes.
In this case a population or community approach has been more effective than working one-by-one.
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