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Track 1.B Introduction: Re-Designing Health: Transforming Systems, Practices And Care, Aidan Rowe, Claudine Jaenichen, Gillian Harvey, Kate Sellen, Stephanie Vandenberg
Track 1.B Introduction: Re-Designing Health: Transforming Systems, Practices And Care, Aidan Rowe, Claudine Jaenichen, Gillian Harvey, Kate Sellen, Stephanie Vandenberg
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The Re-Designing Health: Transforming Systems, Practices and Care track explores the increasing role and possibility for a wide range of design practices and methods to contribute to health care products, provision, and systems.
There is growing recognition of the increasing complexity faced by healthcare systems; critical issues and challenges include ageing populations, chronic diseases, growing drug ineffectiveness, and lack of access to comprehensive services (to name only a few examples). Concurrently design thinking, methods and practices are increasingly recognized as means of addressing complex, multi-levelled and systemic problems.
The track session brought together design academics, researchers and practitioners that are …