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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Global Public Health Practice
Published in Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan, Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health, 2023
Charles Oham, Maurice Ekwugha, Gladius Kulothungan
An assets-based approach requires that social innovation creates social value from innovative ideas, applications, and combinations of existing circumstances and resources (Young, 2006). Social innovation, which is the development of new ideas that work in solving problems, was found to have a close link with social entrepreneurship. When innovation, for example, the introduction of novel products and services, is used for social purposes, like improving the health and wellbeing of a population, it is classified as social innovation. Resource limitations can act as a push for social enterprises to be highly innovative and precipitate sustainability (Oham and Okeke, 2022). Social entrepreneurial philosophy proceeds beyond profit-making to innovation and resilience when challenges occur. ‘Sustainable Health Enterprises’ (SHE), based in Rwanda and East Africa, are involved in working with schools and stakeholders to address ‘period’ poverty amongst schoolgirls, who are unable to afford or access sanitary pads. Innovatively, SHE have also developed the use of banana tree fibres to manufacture high-quality sanitary pads (Beugre, 2017).
Innovation
Published in John Wattis, Stephen Curran, Elizabeth Cotton, Practical Management and Leadership for Doctors, 2019
John Wattis, Stephen Curran, Elizabeth Cotton
In healthcare, social innovation and enterprise [1] is especially important. As discussed earlier, it is motivated by a vision of social need and a desire to produce social good. The primary concern of social entrepreneurs is creating social value rather than personal profit. Successful social innovation depends on a disciplined and organised process to turn ideas and opportunities into reality. It demands the same focused and determined drive as entrepreneurship in the commercial world, even if the motivation is very different. Social innovation is important in healthcare, and case studies later in this chapter can be seen primarily as examples of successful social innovation.
Design Research for Change: Caring for People Living with Dementia
Published in Paul A. Rodgers, Design for People Living with Dementia, 2022
Chapter 12, “Connecting Design Students with People Living in Long-term Care: Driving Social Change Through the Curriculum” written by Jon Hannan, Caylee Raber, and Michael Peterson, describes the “Perspectives Program” – a collaborative project between design students in the Emily Carr University Communication Design department and care home residents in Vancouver, Canada. The “Perspectives Program” brings together design students and people living with dementia in care homes to co-design and co-write publications focused on their life experiences, in the belief that this intergenerational exchange has a number of benefits for both those in long-term care and the design students. The project sees small groups of students and people living with dementia meet 6 times over a period of twelve weeks to first develop a relationship, then undertake a series of personalised participatory design activities that support people living with dementia in care homes in sharing their stories, and culminates in a printed publication and reading of these stories. The authors believe that designers are gaining an increasing role in addressing complex and “wicked” social challenges, and it is the responsibility of educators to prepare design students for these expanding roles. They propose that by reimagining design students and academic courses as a resource that can have an impact on communities through experiential learning, initiatives like the “Perspectives Program” can build effective relationships and intergenerational exchange between people living with dementia and design students through the co-design of publications featuring their life stories. The “Perspectives Program”, a design-driven social innovation project based within the context of dementia health and social care, demonstrates how design can drive social change by acknowledging that solutions to our problems may already be around us – we just have to find them.
Twelve tips to stimulate creative problem-solving with design thinking
Published in Medical Teacher, 2021
Michael D. Wolcott, Jacqueline E. McLaughlin, Devin K. Hubbard, Traci R. Rider, Kelly Umstead
Healthcare is increasingly complex, often requiring creative and innovative solutions to problems encountered by healthcare providers and educators (Frenk et al. 2010). Design thinking strategies have been adopted by some (Altman et al. 2018; Badwan et al. 2018; Deitte and Omary 2019; Frith 2020; Vagal et al. 2020; Wolcott and McLaughlin 2020) to address healthcare challenges, such as developing a mobile application to support patients (Hou et al. 2020), improving patient-provider communication (Aaronson et al. 2020), engaging residents in well-being interventions (Thomas et al. 2020), and informing the layout of care facilities (Berry et al. 2020). In addition, design thinking has been utilized to engage communities and patients in social innovation that is more inclusive (Ferreira et al. 2020; van der Westhuizen et al. 2020).
Health-Related Digital Autonomy: An Important, But Unfinished Step
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2021
As formulated, HRDA addresses only a particular digital ecosystem (i.e., social media) and a particular healthcare context (i.e., a clinical encounter). In doing so, it stops short of providing the comprehensive digital healthcare guidance that we need. A robust framework for digital health-related autonomy must be applicable to a wide variety of current and evolving digital ecosystems; must outline what constitutes autonomous decision making in digital clinical, research, and public health contexts; and must acknowledge the need for balancing against other ethical demands, like health-related social innovation.