Health Design Thinking

This book offers a practice-based guide to applying the principles of human-centred design to real-world health challenges that range from drug packaging to breast cancer detection. Written by pioneers in the field-Bon Ku, a physician leader in innovative health design, and Ellen Lupton, an award-winning graphic designer-the book outlines the fundamentals of design thinking and highlights important products, prototypes, and research in health design. This revised and expanded edition describes innovations developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis, including an intensive care unit in a shipping container, a rolling cart with intubation equipment, and a mask brace that gives a surgical mask a tighter seal. The book explores the special overlap of health care and the creative process, describing the development of such products and services as a credit card-sized device that allows patients to generate their own electrocardiograms; a mask designed to be worn with a hijab; improved emergency room signage; and a map of racial disparities and COVID-19. It will be an essential volume for health care providers, educators, patients, and designers who seek to create better experiences and improved health outcomes for individuals and communities.

ISBN:	9780262543606
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	16 Feb 2022
DEWEY:	620.82
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	544g
Height:	309mm
Width:	165mm
Spine width:	16mm

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