Design for Health

Emmanuel Tsekleves is a Senior Lecturer in Design Interactions at Imagination@Lancaster, Lancaster University. Emmanuel conducts research on designing creative and technology-inspired health-promoting interventions aimed at improving quality of life. Emmanuel blogs regularly for The Guardian and The Conversation on design in healthcare.Rachel Cooper OBE is Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University. Her research interests cover design thinking, design management, design policy, design for wellbeing and socially responsible design. She is the series editor of the Routledge series Design for Social Responsibility.

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• Introduction and Chapter Summary, by Rachel Cooper and Emmanuel Tsekleves Part 1 – Setting the SceneChapter 1: A Brief History of Western Medicine and Healthcare, by Chris Rust Chapter 2: Challenges and Opportunities for Design, by David SwannPart 2 – Designing for HealthForeword, by Emmanuel TseklevesTheme 1: Design for Public HealthChapter 3: Services: Soft Service Design around the Envelope of Healthcare, by Peter JonesChapter 4: Behaviours: Behaviour-change Interventions for Public Health, by Sarah Denford, Charles Abraham, Samantha Van Beurden, Jane R. Smith, and Sarah Morgan-TrimmerChapter 5: Architecture: The Beneficial Health Outcomes of Salutogenic Design, by Alan DilaniChapter 6: Communications: The Contribution of Typography and Information Design to Health Communication, by Sue WalkerTheme 2: Design in Acute HealthChapter 7: Architecture: Healing Architecture, by Ricardo CodinhotoChapter 8: Products: Product Design in Acute Health, by Sue HignettChapter 9: Communications: Designing Care Bundle Documentation to Support the Recognition and Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury: A Route to Quality Improvement, by Alison Black, Josefina Bravo Burnier, Matthew Brook, Clare Carey, Michelle Goonasekera, David Meredith, Anna Olsson-Brown, Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng and Emma VauxTheme 3: Design in Chronic HealthChapter 10: Behaviours: Design and Behaviour Change in Health, by Claire Craig and Paul ChamberlainChapter 11: Communications: Communication Design in Chronic Health, by Alison PrendivilleChapter 12: Services: Service Design in Chronic Health, by Paul Chamberlain, Susan Mawson and Daniel WolstenholmeChapter 13: Products: Designing Products for Chronic Health, by Abby Paterson, Ricard Bibb, K. Downey and Jari PallariChapter 14: Architecture: Urban Design and Wellbeing, by Christopher T. BoykoChapter 15: Design Innovation: Embedding Design Process in a Charity Organisation: Evolving the Double Diamond at Macmillan Cancer Support, by Marianne GuldbrandsenTheme 4: Design for Ageing WellChapter 16: Services: Exploring How a Service Design Approach can Facilitate Co-design of Supportive Communities and Service Frameworks for Older People, by Valerie Carr, Sarah Drummond and Andy Young Chapter 17: Products: Negotiating Design within Sceptical Territory: Lessons from Healthcare, by Alastair S. Macdonald Chapter 18: Communications: Visual information about medicines for older patients, by Karel van der WaardeChapter 19: Architecture: Workplace Health and Wellbeing: Can Greater Design Participation Provide a Cure, by Jeremy Myerson and Gail RamsterChapter 20: Behaviours: Behavioural Strategies of Older Adults in the Adoption of New Technology-based Products: The Effects of Ageing and the Promising Application of Smart Materials for the Design of Future Products, by Gabriella Spinelli, Massimo Micocci and Marco AjovalasitPart 3 – Research Methods, Recommendations and ForesightChapter 21: Design Insider: The Patient Perspective, by Victor MargolinChapter 22: Foresight: The Next Big Frontier in Healthcare, by Aaron Sklar and Lenny NaarChapter 23: Design for Health: Challenges, Opportunities, Emerging Trends, Research Methods and Recommendations, by Emmanuel Tsekleves and Rachel Cooper