Engaging Communities on Health Innovation: Experiences in Implementing Design Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donné van der Westhuizen ◽  
Nailah Conrad ◽  
Tania S. Douglas ◽  
Tinashe Mutsvangwa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Medication Compliance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Fast Dynamic ◽  
Relevant Community

Design thinking is an approach gaining momentum as a strategy for promoting empathy-driven, human-centered innovation. To evaluate the implementation of design thinking for engaging with communities about health and well-being, we undertook a qualitative analysis of an engagement between students and relevant community stakeholders during a project to develop a health intervention aimed at increasing medication compliance in an elderly community in South Africa. Major findings from this research indicated that design thinking offers opportunities for enriching community–university engagements. However, given constraints on time and procedure that are associated with the academy, the fast, dynamic style of design thinking is not optimally suited for developing the level of trust and rapport that is required for engagements in communities where social-cultural differences operate as barriers. Researchers who wish to utilize design thinking will need to devise and tailor additions to tool kits to meet the specific needs of engagements related to personal health and well-being.

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Antonovsky’s Orientation to Life Questionnaire: Comparison Between Australian, Finnish, and Turkish Young Adults

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 731-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Lajunen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Three Factor ◽  
Single Factor Model

Antonovsky’s concept “sense of coherence” (SOC) and the related measurement instrument “The Orientation to Life Questionnaire” (OLQ) has been widely applied in studies on health and well-being. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the cultural differences in factor structures and psychometric properties as well as mean scores of the 13-item form of Antonovsky’s OLQ among Australian (n = 201), Finnish (n = 203), and Turkish (n = 152) students. Three models of factor structure were studied by using confirmatory factor analysis: single-factor model, first-order correlated-three-factor model, and the second-order three-factor model. Results obtained in all three countries suggest that the first- and second-order three-factor models fitted the data better that the single-factor model. Hence, the OLQ scoring based on comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness scales was supported. Scale reliabilities and inter-correlations were in line with those reported in earlier studies. Two-way analyses of variance (gender × nationality) with age as a covariate showed no cultural differences in SOC scale scores. Women got higher scores on the meaningfulness scale than men, and age was positively related to all SOC scale scores indicating that SOC increases in early adulthood. The results support the three-factor model of OLQ which thus should be used in Australia, Finland, and Turkey instead of a single-factor model. Need for cross-cultural studies taking into account cultural correlates of SOC and its relation to health and well-being indicators as well as studies on gender differences in the OLQ are emphasized.

scholarly journals Design for Social Sustainability at Seattle's Central Library

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Athens
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Cultural Arts ◽  
Health And Well Being

As a culture we hold dear social values such as public good, health and well-being, quality of life, diversity, and equity. The focus of this article is how Seattle's Central Library, a Silver LEED™ project, integrates social benefit into its design. While LEED provides credit opportunities for some social issues, many are not addressed by the LEED System. The Seattle project provides a rich example of how to integrate a broader range of social sustainability into green design thinking. Issues for consideration include: design to encourage social interaction, accessibility, economic development, cultural arts, and improved staff efficiency and ergonomics. This discussion searches for lessons learned that might inspire the emergence of new LEED credits.

Health, the Environment, and the Urban Community

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 442-446
Author(s):  
BAILUS WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Improve Community Health

The health of a community must be viewed from a three-dimensional perspective: (a) personal health, (b) environmental health, and (c) social conditions related to health. Not only are the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment significant determinants of community health, but the problems of poverty, substandard housing, stressful occupational environments, and unemployment are also integrated constituents of health and well-being. Accordingly, health service programs cannot be compartmentalized; they must reflect the three-dimensions of health and they must be designed to achieve the goals and objectives necessary to improve community health.

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