Evidence-Based Programming
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Proverbs 15:22; Proverbs 16:3; Proverbs 24:6-16;
The Importance of Evidence Based Social Interventions
Non-governmental and governmental organizations worldwide implement programs to combat social problems, including poverty and lack of adequate health care. However, the programs are often designed and executed based on assumptions rather than based on data and facts. In her TED talk entitled “Social Experiments to Fight Poverty,” MIT economist Esther Duflo compares the implementation of social programs that are not evidence based to the use of leeches by doctors in the medieval period.
Centuries later, evidence-based medicine and rigorous analysis became central to medical practice. Until recently, social policies and interventions have been developed and implemented based on assumptions rather than evidence. Evidence-based [Social Interventions] are [now ] essential.
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