scholarly journals Panel-based exhibit using participatory design elements may motivate behavior change

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. A03
Author(s):  
Lisa Lundgren ◽  
Kathryn Stofer ◽  
Betty Dunckel ◽  
Janice Krieger ◽  
Makenna Lange ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Science Engagement ◽  
Motivate Behavior

Meaningful science engagement beyond one-way outreach is needed to encourage science-based decision making. This pilot study aimed to instigate dialogue and deliberation concerning climate change and public health. Feedback from science café participants was used to design a panel-based museum exhibit that asked visitors to make action plans concerning such issues. Using intercept interviews and visitor comment card data, we found that visitors developed general or highly individualistic action plans to address these issues. Results suggest that employing participatory design methods when developing controversial socio-scientific exhibits can aid engagement. We conclude by recommending participatory strategies for implementing two-way science communication.

scholarly journals Participatory Design and Process Testing to Optimize Utility, Usability, and Acceptability of a Mobile Game for Promoting Evidence-Driven Public Health Decision-Making in Resource-Constrained Settings

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Douglas Sinnatwah ◽  
Hajah Kenneh ◽  
Alvan A. Coker ◽  
Wahdae-Mai Harmon-Gray ◽  
Joelyn Zankah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
End Users ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Mobile Game

Innovative game-based training methods that leverage the ubiquity of cellphones and familiarity with phone-based interfaces have the potential to transform the training of public health practitioners in low-income countries such as Liberia. This article describes the design, development, and testing of a prototype of the Figure It Out mobile game. The prototype game uses a disease outbreak scenario to promote evidence-based decision-making in determining the causative agent and prescribing intervention measures to minimize epidemiological and logistical burdens in resource-limited settings. An initial prototype of the game developed by the US team was playtested and evaluated by focus groups with 20 University of Liberia Masters of Public Health (UL MPH) students. Results demonstrate that the learning objectives—improving search skills for identifying scientific evidence and considering evidence before decision-making during a public health emergency—were considered relevant and important in a setting that has repeatedly and recently experienced severe threats to public health. However, some of the game mechanics that were thought to enhance engagement such as trial-and-error and choose-your-own-path gameplay, were perceived by the target audience as distracting or too time-consuming, particularly in the context of a realistic emergency scenario. Gameplay metrics that mimicked real-world situations around lives lost, money spent, and time constraints during public health outbreaks were identified as relatable and necessary considerations. Our findings reflect cultural differences between the game development team and end users that have emphasized the need for end users to have an integral part of the design team; this formative evaluation has critically informed next steps in the iterative development process. Our multidisciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-national design team will be guided by Liberia-based public health students and faculty, as well as community members who represent our end user population in terms of experience and needs. These stakeholders will make key decisions regarding game objectives and mechanics, to be vetted and implemented by game design experts, epidemiologists, and software developers.

scholarly journals Lagging and Flagging: Air Pollution, Shale Gas Exploration and the Interaction of Policy, Science, Ethics and Environmental Justice in England

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 4320
Author(s):  
Andrew Watterson ◽  
William Dinan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Shale Gas ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Scientific Publications

The science on the effects of global climate change and air pollution on morbidity and mortality is clear and debate now centres around the scale and precise contributions of particular pollutants. Sufficient data existed in recent decades to support the adoption of precautionary public health policies relating to fossil fuels including shale exploration. Yet air quality and related public health impacts linked to ethical and environmental justice elements are often marginalized or missing in planning and associated decision making. Industry and government policies and practices, laws and planning regulations lagged well behind the science in the United Kingdom. This paper explores the reasons for this and what shaped some of those policies. Why did shale gas policies in England fail to fully address public health priorities and neglect ethical and environmental justice concerns. To answer this question, an interdisciplinary analysis is needed informed by a theoretical framework of how air pollution and climate change are largely discounted in the complex realpolitik of policy and regulation for shale gas development in England. Sources, including official government, regulatory and planning documents, as well as industry and scientific publications are examined and benchmarked against the science and ethical and environmental justice criteria. Further, our typology illustrates how the process works drawing on an analysis of official policy documents and statements on planning and regulatory oversight of shale exploration in England, and material from industry and their consultants relating to proposed shale oil and gas development. Currently the oil, gas and chemical industries in England continue to dominate and influence energy and feedstock-related policy making to the detriment of ethical and environmental justice decision making with significant consequences for public health.

The Pursuit of Zero Food Waste

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-267
Author(s):  
Bhavika Jain ◽  
Arun Khosla ◽  
Kulbhushan Chand ◽  
Kiran Ahuja
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Food Wastage

Games are ordered activities, generally undertaken for recreation. The design elements of these games are being used by people all around the planet to make this world a better place. The opportunities for gamification are being discussed in this chapter along with the use of a decision-making method as both have been applied to the study using a local running mobile application as platform for encouraging students enrolled in various educational institutions to promote avoidance of mess food wastage and in gaining confidence to integrate to use this approach to fight the cause of this global malady in their everyday life. The overarching issue of student mentality about food wastage is being discussed along with how to merge gamification with digital technology in this aspect and its participatory design. This provides the background for addressing points of using a gameful system to foster empowerment and connection among the students of NIT Jalandhar where this case was studied and the proposed approach was implemented.

scholarly journals RUSSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACTION PLANS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN HEALTH FROM CLIMATE RISKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Boris A. Revich ◽  
V. V. Maleev ◽  
M. D. Smirnova ◽  
N. Yu. Pshenichnaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Excess Deaths ◽  
Dependent Mortality

The Paris climate agreement confirmed that climate change continues to pose a global concern and required all Parties to put forward their best efforts to protect public health. In the conditions of global warming, climate-induced risks gained importance as a public health hazard and confirmed the need to develop national action plans. Such plans shall be developed locally, taking into account the requirements of the National Action Plan for adaptation to health risks induced by changing climate. This manuscript presents the data on climate-dependent mortality. The global annual burden of excess deaths attributed to climate change is over 150,000 cases, which leads to a loss of 5.5 million years of productive life per year. Early warning systems have been adopted in many countries, with the goal to prevent heat-related deaths. If such a system were implemented in Moscow, eleven thousand excess deaths could have been avoided during the extremely hot summer of 2010. Heat watch warning systems are based on scientific data on heat thresholds. On the days with temperatures above such thresholds, climate-dependent mortality increases. Such thresholds have been established in the environmental epidemiology studies conducted in Moscow, Northern and Southern cities, the cities with continental and monsoon climates. The experience of implementation of early warning systems during extreme weather events was analyzed. The relative powers of bioclimatic indices as predictors of daily mortality rates during extreme weather events were compared. To prevent complications of cardiovascular diseases, a set of protective measures was proposed which included cardiology medications, recommendations on personal behavior and drinking habits during extreme heat, and other measures. The risks and examples of occurrence and northward propagation of climate-dependent infectious diseases such as Siberian anthrax, West Nile fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and dirofilariasis, were described.

Climate Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 1398-1407
Author(s):  
Mgbeodichinma Eucharia Onuoha Oragwa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Climate Finance ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Greenhouse Gasses ◽  
Green Climate Fund ◽  
Life On Earth

Climate change caused by the anthropogenic accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the air is affecting all life on earth and bearing upon human undertakings thereby representing the most complicated challenge of our time. Across cultures, the impacts of climate change affect women and men differently. Although women being disproportionately impacted by climate change, they play a key role in adapting and mitigating climate change. This is why UN-Climate Change negotiations have incorporated gender action plans to guarantee equal room and resources for women and men for decision-making and action on climate change at all levels. For instance, a gender-sensitive approach to climate finance is increasingly being used to better tackle future gender inequalities as seen in the green climate fund scenario. The purpose of this paper is to encourage awareness of importance of gender and cultural diversity inclusion in climate change actions.

Comparing science communication theory with practice: An assessment and critique using Australian data

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenni Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Communication Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Controversies ◽  
Science Engagement

Scholars have variously described different models of science communication over the past 20 years. However, there has been little assessment of theorised models against science communication practice. This article compares 515 science engagement activities recorded in a 2012 Australian audit against the theorised characteristics of the three dominant models of deficit, dialogue and participation. Most engagement activities had objectives that reflected a mix of deficit and dialogue activities. Despite increases in scientific controversies like climate change, there appears to be a paucity of participatory activities in Australia. Those that do exist are mostly about people being involved with science through activities like citizen science. These participatory activities appear to coexist with and perhaps even depend on deficit activities. Science communication scholars could develop their models by examining the full range of objectives for engagement found in practice and by recognising that any engagement will likely include a mix of approaches.

scholarly journals Moral Cosmopolitans in Eight Countries Bestow Equitable Benefit and Security on Outsiders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuechunzi Bai ◽  
Susan Fiske ◽  
Varun Gauri
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Real World ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Degrees Of Belief ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Relevant Group ◽  
Global Welfare

Moral cosmopolitanism prioritizes global welfare over national interest. Cosmopolitans, in contrast to moral patriots, bestow equitable benefit and security across borders. Participants from four continents (N = 5,772) endorsed degrees of belief in equitable benefit and security, which respectively predicted (a) making monetary donations to global rather than national organizations and (b) protecting an immigrant rather than citizens. Correlated with their decision making, cosmopolitans’ accessible concepts included the relevant group, impartiality, and concrete need construal. Manipulating the accessibility of these cosmopolitan thoughts increased global donations by 12%. We situate theories of morality without borders in diverse, real-world contexts, and provide large-scale empirical evidence regarding cognitive conditions for cosmopolitan thinking. Increasing moral cosmopolitanism through reasoning could be valuable for global decision-making in domains such as climate change, migration, poverty, trade, and public health.

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