scholarly journals Developing Pandemic Prevention and Control by ANP-QFD Approach: A Case Study on Urban Furniture Design in China Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2653
Author(s):  
Jing Liu ◽  
Khairul Manami Kamarudin ◽  
Yuqi Liu ◽  
Jinzhi Zou
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Furniture Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
And Control

Background: An infectious disease can affect human beings at an alarming speed in modern society, where Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a worldwide pandemic, posing grave threats to public security and the social economies. However, as one of the closest attachments of urban dwellers, urban furniture hardly contributes to pandemic prevention and control. Methods: Given this critical challenge, this article aims to propose a feasible solution to coping with pandemic situations through urban furniture design, using an integrated method of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Analytic Network Process (ANP). Eight communities in China are selected as the research sites, since people working and living in these places have successful experience preventing and containing pandemics. Results: Three user requirements (URs), namely, usability and easy access, sanitation, and health and emotional pleasure, are determined. Meanwhile, seven design requirements (DRs) are identified, including contact reduction, effective disinfection, good appearance, social and cultural symbols, ergonomics, smart system and technology and sustainability. The overall priorities of URs and DRs and their inner dependencies are subsequently determined through the ANP-QFD method, comprising the House of Quality (HQQ). According to the theoretical results, we propose five design strategies for pandemic prevention and control. Conclusion: It is demonstrated that the incorporated method of ANP-QFD has applicability and effectiveness in the conceptual product design process. This article can also provide a new perspective for pandemic prevention and control in densely populated communities in terms of product design and development.

scholarly journals Strategic use of communication to market cancer prevention and control to vulnerable populations

2012 ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
Gary L. Kreps
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Cancer Prevention And Control ◽  
And Control

There are significant challenges to communicating relevant cancer prevention and control information to health care consumers due both to the complexities of the health information to be communicated and the complexities of health communication, especially with vulnerable populations. The need for effective communication about cancer risks, early detection, prevention, care, and survivorship is particularly acute, yet also tremendously complex, for reaching vulnerable populations, those groups of people who are most likely to suffer significantly higher levels of morbidity and mortality from cancers than other segments of the population. These vulnerable populations, typically the poorest, lowest educated, and most disenfranchised members of modern society, are heir to serious cancer-related health disparities. Vulnerable populations often have health literacy difficulties, cultural barriers, and economic challenges to accessing and making sense of relevant health information. This paper examines these challenges to communicating relevant information to vulnerable populations and suggests strategies for effectively using different communication media for marketing cancer preventionand control to reduce health disparities and promote public health.

Decision Model of Design for Elderly Wearable Health Monitoring Products Based on Quality Function Deployment and Analytic Network Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2805-2813
Author(s):  
Lin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Index System ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
House Of Quality ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Qfd Method

Facing the current situation of aging society, the health of the elderly has once again become an important issue related to people's livelihood. Aiming at the health problems of the elderly, with the improvement of science and technology, a series of wearable health monitoring products targeted at the elderly have gradually appeared. In order to accurately provide the elderly with a good experience in the interaction of wearable health monitoring products, this article obtains the needs of the elderly according to the research content of ergonomics, and addresses the needs of the elderly from their physical, psychological and Three angles of interaction were classified; then based on the demand, a Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method was used to build a house of quality model, which transformed the needs of the elderly into design requirements, and combined with Analytic Network Process (ANP) to build a model evaluation index system. Combining the house of quality model with the network analysis method, so that the advantages of the ANP method can be fully utilized, the shortcomings of the QFD method can be overcome, and the degree of interaction between factors in the index system can be better reflected, so that the attribute weights given are more reasonable. Finally, a fuzzy QFDANP method model for the selection and modification of such product design schemes is constructed, which not only avoids the subjective and unreasonable factors of the initial requirements acquisition of the product design, but also can target the applicability requirements of the product functions and structure Modifications provide clear goals for the design and selection of design options for such products. The validity and practicability of the method are verified by examples.

scholarly journals Environmental Design Strategies to Decrease the Risk of Nosocomial Infection in Medical Buildings Using a Hybrid MCDM Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Lei Xiong ◽  
Ge Sheng ◽  
Zi-Mu Fan ◽  
Hua Yang ◽  
Feng-Jang Hwang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nosocomial Infection ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Building Environment ◽  
And Control

The prevention and control of nosocomial infection (NI) are becoming increasingly difficult, and its mechanism is becoming increasingly complex. A globally aging population means that an increasing proportion of patients have a susceptible constitution, and the frequent occurrence of severe infectious diseases has also led to an increase in the cost of prevention and control of NI. Medical buildings’ spatial environment design for the prevention of NI has been a hot subject of considerable research, but few previous studies have summarized the design criteria for a medical building environment to control the risk of NI. Thus, there is no suitable evaluation framework to determine whether the spatial environment of a medical building is capable of inhibiting the spread of NI. In the context of the global spread of COVID-19, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of the existing medical building environment in terms of inhibiting the spread of NI and to verify current environmental improvement strategies for the efficient and rational use of resources. This study determines the key design elements for the spatial environment of medical buildings, constructs an evaluation framework using exploratory factor analysis, verifies the complex dominant influence relationship, and prioritizes criteria in the evaluation framework using the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory- (DEMATEL-) based analytical network process (ANP) (DANP). Using representative real cases, this study uses the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to evaluate and analyze the performance with the aspiration level of reducing the NI risk. A continuous and systematic transformation design strategy for these real cases is proposed. The main contributions of this study include the following: (1) it creates a systematic framework that allows hospital decision-makers to evaluate the spatial environment of medical buildings; (2) it provides a reference for making design decisions to improve the current situation using the results of a performance evaluation; (3) it draws an influential network relation map (INRM) and the training of influence weights (IWs) for criteria. The sources of practical problems can be identified by the proposed evaluation framework, and the corresponding strategy can be proposed to avoid the waste of resources for the prevention of epidemics.

scholarly journals A Modular and Mobile Product Design Approach for Feed Processor

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuli Agusti Rochman ◽  
Dwi Ana Ratna Wati
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Processor Design ◽  
Feed Processing ◽  
Quality Function ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
Customer Expectation ◽  
Qfd Method

This study aims to produce a modular feed processor design. Feed processing, flexibility, and mobility are taking into account in the design. The modular and integrated product design provides advantages such as (1) easy way of making and modifying the product, (2) feed processing can be done anywhere (3) equipment has mobility capabilities. The Modular Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method is applied to identify modules associated with the customer needs of the product. A survey about customer expectation and satisfaction was conducted in order to evaluate the gap of both. The highest value of the gap between customer expectation and satisfaction of products indicates that the customer needs are the focus of the problems. The most important customer needs are considered in the modification and improvement of design. These are (1) easy to use, (2) clean, (3) durable, (4) wide, (5) mobility capability, (6) safe, (7) strong, and (8) easy access.

scholarly journals A Hybrid MADM Model for Product Design Evaluation and Improvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6743
Author(s):  
Tien-Li Chen ◽  
Chin-Chuan Chen ◽  
Yen-Ching Chuang ◽  
James J. H. Liou
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Aspiration Level ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Design Assessment ◽  
The Impact

Global warming and climate change are the most pressing issues in the world. This is the inevitable result of human beings pursuing a better quality of life and materials. If the green design concept is used in the design and manufacture of products, the impact of production on the environment will be greatly reduced. Because of this, green product design assessment and improvement activities play an important role in achieving the 2030 sustainable development goals. Product design is the forefront of the entire product development process, and it plays a very critical role. The purpose of this study is to develop a decision-making model for helping decision makers to evaluate and improve the performance of product design systematically. The model combines the design standard of the iF world design guide and multi-attribute decision-making methods. First, the DEMATEL-based analytic network process is used to establish the influential relationship and weights of attributes. Next, the VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno with aspiration-level method is used to obtain the gap between each evaluation attribute and the aspiration level of each design. Finally, this evaluation result uses the influential network relationship map (INRM) to propose various improvement strategies with causal influence. This study uses products from a Taiwanese furniture design company as an empirical case, which is a leading brand and benchmark in Taiwan’s furniture industry. The research results show that the proposed model can help decision makers to choose the most appropriate design scheme (i.e., the design with the smallest gap from expectations); designers can also improve the gap between product design and expectations.

Aesthetic Evaluation of Furniture Design Based on ANP Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 574 ◽  
pp. 318-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Chen ◽  
Jian Hua Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Furniture Industry ◽  
Furniture Design ◽  
Aesthetic Evaluation ◽  
Scheme Optimization ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Questionnaire Method

With the increasing growth of furniture industry, it has led to much attention on scheme optimization and selection. An approach based on Analytic Network Process (ANP) is proposed in order to improve the evaluation system of furniture design, which is comprised of aesthetic indexes of product design schemes, as well as to select the best scheme and guide the improvement of the best scheme in case study. ANP method is used to obtain the optimal weight performance of the correlative indexes by using SuperDecisions software program, after establishing aesthetic index system by Expert Questionnaire Method. The final result of index weights shows form, color, and ergonomically designed are the most important indexes, which are 0.286559, 0.185002, and 0.132272, respectively.

scholarly journals Environmental Sustainability for Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in Healthcare Facilities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udomiaye Emmanuel ◽  
◽  
Desy Osondu Eze ◽  
Kalu Cheche Kalu ◽  
Aminu Ahmad Haliru
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Infection Control ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

The emergence of the novel coronavirus, increase in microbial resistance and the scarceness of vaccines for the present pandemic have made it imperative to appraise the link between the sustainable built environment and Infection control as well as the strategies employed during the pre-antibiotic period. This paper aims to identify the nexus between a sustainable built environment and infection control in healthcare facilities with the view of developing guidelines and highlighting the role of architecture in curbing the pandemic. The study relied on existing studies, interviews, and interactions with healthcare workers. The findings showed that sustainable design strategies play a significant role in infection prevention and control and could as well be a panacea for curbing the spread of Coronavirus, especially in healthcare facilities. A sustainable environment for hospitals or healthcare facilities, apart from low energy and carbon emission, needs to integrate design strategies to confront the impact of healthcare-associated infections.

scholarly journals Public health aspects of human and animal spongiform encephalopathies

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
M. H. Wahdan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
General Public ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spongiform Encephalopathies ◽  
Animal Diseases ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
And Control ◽  
Human And Animal Diseases

This group of re-emerging human and animal diseases has recently attracted much attention, as well as concern, both in the scientific world and among the general public. In this paper the various public health aspects of these diseases are discussed. The epidemiology, both in human beings and animals, has been reviewed and the causative agents described. Diagnosis, pathology, prevention and control are addressed, showing how the risk to animals and human beings could be minimized

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