Design for Health

by Emmanuel Tsekleves
Design for Health
Author: Emmanuel Tsekleves
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1317152506
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One of the most complex global challenges is improving wellbeing and developing strategies for promoting health or preventing ‘illbeing’ of the population. The role of designers in indirectly supporting the promotion of healthy lifestyles or in their contribution to illbeing has emerged. This means designers now need to consider, both morally and ethically, how they can ensure that they ‘do no harm’ and that they might deliberately decide to promote healthy lifestyles and therefore prevent ill health. Design for Health illustrates the history of the development of design for health, the various design disciplines and domains to which design has contributed. Through 26 case studies presented in this book, the authors reveal a plethora of design research methodologies and research methods employed in design for health. The editors also present, following a thematic analysis of the book chapters, seven challenges and seven areas of opportunity that designers are called upon to address within the context of healthcare. Furthermore, five emergent trends in design in healthcare are presented and discussed. This book will be of interest to students of design as well as designers and those working to improve the quality of healthcare.

The Original Design for Health

by Dr. Mark Shannan
The Original Design for Health
Author: Dr. Mark Shannan
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0768409535
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Discover the secrets to Living a Healthy, Happy, Active, and Long Life! In the beginning, God had a perfect plan. Humans were designed to live with abundant healthbut weve strayed from that path. So where are we now? People are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer are skyrocketing. We are emotionally and spiritually depleted, overworked, out of shape, worn out, eating fake foods, and exposed to hormones, GMOs and chemicals that didnt even exist 100 years ago. Is there hope? Whats the solution? Dr. Mark believes you can return to The Original Design. Whether youre exhausted, depressed, overweight, in pain, suffering from disease, or simply want to be fit and healthy, The Original Design for Health offers timeless principles and scientific facts that show you how to: Understand the four foundational pillars of healthPhysical, Chemical, Mental and Spiritualhow theyre interdependent and their importance to your body. Create balance through enjoying delicious and nutritious food, restful sleep, great relationships, fun exercise, spiritual peace, an attitude of gratitude, ideal spinal alignment, emotional control, plentiful playtime, and a big picture perspective. Identify and get to the root cause of many common health issues. Take control of your health and get back on the original track to wellness. Without health, you cant be who you were designed to be or live the life you were meant to live. Make today the first day of the healthiest part of your lifethe life youve always dreamed of! You cant rewrite the beginning of your story, but you can change the ending.

Evidence-Based Healthcare Design

by Rosalyn Cama
Evidence-Based Healthcare Design
Author: Rosalyn Cama
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-03-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0470149426
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If designed properly, a healthcare interior environment can foster healing, efficient task-performance and productivity, effective actions, and safe behavior. Written by an expert practitioner, Rosalyn Cama, FASID, this is the key book for interior designers and architects to learn the methodology for evidence-based design for healthcare facilities. Endorsed by the American Society of Interior Designers, the guide clearly presents a four-step methodology that will achieve the desired outcome and showcases the best examples of evidence-based healthcare interiors. With worksheets that guide you through such practical tasks as completing an internal analysis of a client's facility and collecting data, this book will inspire a transformation in healthcare design practice.

Health Design Thinking

by Bon Ku
Health Design Thinking
Author: Bon Ku
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262358913
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Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer. This book makes a case for applying the principles of design thinking to real-world health care challenges. As health care systems around the globe struggle to expand access, improve outcomes, and control costs, Health Design Thinking offers a human-centered approach for designing health care products and services, with examples and case studies that range from drug packaging and exam rooms to internet-connected devices for early detection of breast cancer. Written by leaders in the field—Bon Ku, a physician and founder of the innovative Health Design Lab at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and Ellen Lupton, an award-winning graphic designer and curator at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum—the book outlines the fundamentals of design thinking and highlights important products, prototypes, and research in health design. Health design thinking uses play and experimentation rather than a rigid methodology. It draws on interviews, observations, diagrams, storytelling, physical models, and role playing; design teams focus not on technology but on problems faced by patients and clinicians. The book's diverse case studies show health design thinking in action. These include the development of PillPack, which frames prescription drug delivery in terms of user experience design; a credit card–size device that allows patients to generate their own electrocardiograms; and improved emergency room signage. Drawings, photographs, storyboards, and other visualizations accompany the case studies. Copublished with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for Care

by Peter H. Jones
Design for Care
Author: Peter H. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013
Genre: Communication in medicine
ISBN: 9781933820231
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Healthcare is constantly evolving, with ever increasing complexity and costs presenting huge challenges for policy making, decision making, and system design. Design for Care presents an overview of the design issues facing healthcare and shows how designers can work with practice professionals, patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders to make a positive difference. Case studies, design methods, and leading-edge research illuminate emerging opportunities and provide inspiration for designing better services. (bron: rosenfeldmedia.com).

Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing

by Lisa Scharoun
Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing
Author: Lisa Scharoun
Publisher: Global Health Humanities
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Aging
ISBN: 9781789383089
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This book examines some of the challenges associated with ageing in multi-cultural societies. We explore some of the major issues facing society in the area of 'healthy ageing' and propose a method of working with cross-disciplinary groups of health practitioners, designers, architects and cultural practitioners. Through case-studies of a series of workshops run in China and Singapore with Australian, Chinese and Singaporean students, we review the benefits of this approach and provide a framework for engaging designers, planners and health professionals in the process of creating new design solutions for the growing global ageing population.

Lean Design in Healthcare

by Adam Ward
Lean Design in Healthcare
Author: Adam Ward
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351015532
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This book gives the reader an inside look at creating a new healthcare service using practical examples and scenarios one would face if doing it themselves. This book chronicles the journey of a fictitious healthcare delivery organization using the Simpler Design System principles based on Lean methodologies. While the characters and actual story is fictitious, it is based on the journey many healthcare systems and clients have taken, the issues they have faced, and the successes and failures they’ve had. Tools and approaches used are based on the actual work of Simpler. The story format engages readers and is intended to motivate and inspire executive teams to use the tenets of the book as a guide to launch their own successful implementation of an idea-to-launch methodology. Tools include those gleaned from actual application of Lean Product Development, Agile, Design for Six Sigma, and Design Thinking Principles. Through engaging storytelling and practical theory, this book is written from the perspective of a physician leader that agrees to be the executive sponsor for a service redesign. As the story progresses, the sponsor becomes fascinated with the process and becomes the first VP of Innovation within his organization.

Design Details for Health

by Cynthia A. Leibrock
Design Details for Health
Author: Cynthia A. Leibrock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2011-02-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0470926848
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Praise for Design Details for Health "Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris have developed a vitally important reference. They draw upon and compile a rich source of evidence that supports the application of specific research-based details for particular health-related settings." From the Foreword by Dr. Wayne Ruga, AIA, FIIDA, Hon. FASID The revised edition on implementing design details to improve today's health care facilities an inspiring, comprehensive guide In this significantly revised second edition, Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris offer up-to-date information on design details that can improve patient outcomes and user experience by returning authority to the patient, along with fascinating case studies and research demonstrating the positive role design can play in reducing health care costs. Design Details for Health, Second Edition offers contemporary examples showing how design can improve patient comfort and independence, and demonstrates how to design highly functional health care facilities that operate at peak performance. The book addresses a range of health care facility types including hospitals, ambulatory care, wellness centers, subacute care and rehabilitation, adult day care and respite, assisted living, hospice, dementia care, and aging in place. This Second Edition includes: The latest research, which was only anecdotal in nature as recently as a decade ago, illustrating how design through evidence produces measurable outcomes Real-world case studies of a range of excellent health care facilities that have been designed and built in the twenty-first century Updated contributions with leading practitioners, researchers, and providers conveying how design has a positive impact on health care delivery When design empowers rather than disables, everybody wins. Sensitive to the needs of both patients and providers, Design Details for Health, Second Edition is essential reading for today's architects, interior designers, facility managers, and health care professionals.

Making Healthy Places

by Andrew L. Dannenberg
Making Healthy Places
Author: Andrew L. Dannenberg
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610910362
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The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of--and offers treatment for--problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.