Engaging Communities on Health Innovation: Experiences in Implementing Design Thinking.

IF 1.3 Q2 Social Sciences

International Quarterly of Community Health Education Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Epub Date: 2020-01-23 DOI:10.1177/0272684X19900880

Donné van der Westhuizen, Nailah Conrad, Tania S Douglas, Tinashe Mutsvangwa

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Abstract

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.

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参与社区健康创新:实施设计思维的经验。

设计思维作为一种促进移情驱动、以人为中心的创新的策略，正在获得势头。为了评估设计思维在参与社区健康和福祉方面的实施情况，我们对学生和相关社区利益相关者之间的参与情况进行了定性分析，该项目旨在制定旨在提高南非老年社区药物依从性的健康干预措施。这项研究的主要发现表明，设计思维为丰富社区大学的参与提供了机会。然而，考虑到与学院相关的时间和程序的限制，快速、动态的设计思维风格并不适合于在社会文化差异作为障碍的社区中发展所需的信任和融洽关系。希望利用设计思维的研究人员将需要设计和定制工具包的附加内容，以满足与个人健康和福祉相关的特定需求。

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International Quarterly of Community Health Education PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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期刊介绍： The International Quarterly of Community Health Education is committed to publishing applied research, policy and case studies dealing with community health education and its relationship to social change. Since 1981, this rigorously peer-referred Journal has contained a wide selection of material in readable style and format by contributors who are not only authorities in their field, but can also write with vigor, clarity, and occasionally with humor. Since its introduction the Journal has considered all manuscripts, especially encouraging stimulating articles which manage to combine maximum readability with scholarly standards.