Designing with Dignity

Health and Design Research for Underserved Communities

Bibliographic Data

ID22352302
AuthorsDiana Nicholas (0000-0001-8046-2835, corresponding author), Yvonne Michael
Year2017
Volume1
Issue2
Publication date2017-03-15
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Plan Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2531-7644 • E-ISSN: 2611-7487
PublisherMAGGIOLI S.p.A (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15274/tpj.2016.01.02.06
OpenAlexW2596210148
LanguageEN
References cited7

Health in the Designed Environment (CHDE) received a foundation grant for a course entitled "Health and Design Research: Designing with Dignity" that was piloted spring 2016. In this pilot, students from multiple disciplines examined the relationship between the built environment, health and behavioral health issues. The course linked these issues with the over-arching theme of housing insecurity. Within this central theme, the students were particularly concerned with underserved groups who may be suffering poor health outcomes due to their lack of access to safe and healthy living spaces. Frameworks within the course exposed the students to multi-level social determinants of behavioral health for underserved groups. Students then learned techniques to innovate solutions for these groups that would improve their limited access to housing resources. Taught by faculty from health and design, this curriculum is designed to help students ask questions and create solutions. They engage in a process that centers on melding human-centered design approaches with public health research. The course participants are taught to create fresh solutions that will have positive impacts on behavioral health in the urban environment

Curriculum · Dignity · Health equity · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public health · Computer Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Health, psychology, and well-being · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Public Health Policies and Education · Gerontology

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