This work focused on using dose as a tool for working collaboratively with communities to increase impact when planning and implementing community-level initiatives (Kuo et al. 2018).

Key Elements:

1. Product of reach

2. Strength

3. Compare diverse strategies with a common measurement

4. Increase impact

1. Population-level impact

2. Equity by reducing disparities at the population level

3. Sustainability

4. Data-driven decisions

I would love to learn more on how this method accounts for tailored and personalized circumstances when is it focused on the population-level. Could it be paired with another methodology?

Key elements:

·      Product of reach (# of people touched divided by target population size & strength)

·      Strength = change in behavior for each exposed person

·      No units, allows for the application of clusters of strategies

·      Alternative to dollars that describes investment value

·      Allows for pivots (i.e. drop strategies) during planning if goals will not be met

·      Shown to get buy-in

·      Confusion across community partners

·      I plan to read the National Academy of Medicine white paper and to look for more examples of dose application, then compare and contrast with other evaluation methods.