︎ Taubman Let’s get Healthy - Paving the way for a healthier college community
College students have difficulty recognizing health problems and lack awareness about the healthcare services available to them. This project aims to make the student healthcare network more comprehensive by promoting healthier habits among students by proposing a physical intervention at various strategic locations in the architecture building and around the college campus. The focus is on guiding students to make decisions that benefit their physical health, even without them realizing it.
By Raunak Desai ︎, Feiling Jin ︎
Why
Many college students need to be aware of the health problems they face and not know how to access healthcare as they find the whole process complicated and overwhelming. Also, they are unsure whether it is suitable for them to seek help from a doctor, so they shy away from it.
The severity of mental health and other issues is extremely prominent. In 2021, it was estimated that up to 41% of college or university students showed signs of depression. A more serious problem is that college students may lack awareness of their health status. Only 23% of students strongly agreed that they knew where to go on their campus if they needed to seek professional help for mental or emotional health.
Mental health of college students
How
For the health problems faced by college students, the provision of health resources for college students is as important as the shaping of their health awareness. We believe that how to enable college students to obtain health resources and solve health problems when the psychological problems and health awareness problems of college students are difficult to be solved in a short period of time has become the core issue. In other words, it is necessary to enable college students to solve health problems without realizing it, and use this as an opportunity to encourage more health resources to enter the campus and cultivate students' health awareness and healthy habits. We are looking to create a safety net within the student community which provides support to those who are facing problems at different levels, Making Primary Care more accessible to college students by strategically creating a first point of contact to healthcare in the college community. By providing easy access to primary care, promoting healthy eating options and creating an overall healthy lifestyle we will be able to create a more healthy College community.
Creating a safety health net for the college students
What
We referenced Point-of-Decision Design and also took inspiration from open-world game Guidance. We found out that some points of attraction can lead students to make healthier decisions naturally. Point-of-Decision Design hopes to help students consciously make more healthy decisions. Therefore, the design advocates design at various locations in the community, that is, Point-of-Decision, to establish positive guidance for students. In open world games, space and line of sight guidance are usually used to continuously attract players to the next set goal and use it. Our team believes that combining these two types of design methods, we can establish a health guidance system in the campus community, through a series of signals to encourage students to contact and use health facilities more, so as to guide them to maintain a healthier lifestyle unconsciously.
Further, this guidance system can help them build health awareness. The basic components of the health guidance system are Attraction Decision Points. They are the facilities that attract the student, provide health assistance to them, and guide them to the next goal.
Attraction Decision Points mainly include the following four types:
-Mobile APP;
-Healthy Living Facilities;
-Physical Examination Facilities;
-Medical Kiosks.
Point of decision and reference to open world game guidance
So What
Establishing a community health network is the most consistent with our definition of community health: everyone can live better, but when someone falls behind, we all need to give him a hand. We hope this Campus Health Network can help every college student live a healthy life.
Point of decision design and the primary care network
Design To Outcomes
Making Primary Care more accessible by strategically creating first point of contacts for healthcare in the college community will result in an overall healthy lifestyle for the college students.
Healthcare Kiosk - A first point of contact to the primary care system
Links to Follow:
︎︎︎Two Page Report
︎︎︎Miro Board
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Works Cited
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