Practice question · Multiple choice
A city runs a three-year programme teaching residents of a low-income neighbourhood how to cook healthy meals. Tested knowledge of nutrition improves substantially. What people actually eat does not change. On the social-ecological model, what is the most likely explanation?
Hints
- The programme succeeded at what it set out to do - the knowledge scores went up. Ask why that was not enough.
- Picture someone who now knows exactly what she should be cooking, in the neighbourhood as it actually is.
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D. The programme moved the individual level and nothing above it.
Why
Nested levels means the outer ones set the terms the inner one works under. The programme did its job, the knowledge is there, and a cookery class cannot reach the shops, the prices or the bus routes. An intervention aimed only at the individual is betting those were never the binding constraint.
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