Qingfan An, Marlene Sandlund, Sara Lundell, Christoffel Kuenen, Sebastien Chastin, Ragnberth Helleday, Katrina Messiha, Quentin Loisel, Karin Wadell
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Abstract
Choosing the appropriate design process is critical for the effective implementation and long-term sustainment of interventions aimed at addressing public health challenges. To address this need, we proposed a Transition Design model to identify and deliver sustainable solutions for complex healthcare problems. This model generates system-level health-intervention initiatives that can synergistically function, particularly during the development and implementation phases, to enhance healthcare delivery. Drawing from a case study on addressing the challenges of hospitalisations and early discharge for people with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), we reflected on the process and analysed the outcomes. Although further testing for the initiatives is warranted, this study contributes to the evolving discourse in design research on systems solutioning for public-health challenges.
期刊介绍:
Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.