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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Designing bugs out.
"Patients go into hospitals to be cured of what ails them, but the ugly truth is that some get sick from being there. In 2007, around 9,000 people in the United Kingdom died from hospital-borne infections. Though the National Health Service has implemented procedural changes that have halved the number of antibiotic-resistant staph infections, or [...]
Beautiful reminders.
Good behaviors need to be encouraged with visually beautiful reminders. We have signage in our environment to remind us of one-way streets and to alert us of an area with deaf children. Where are the beautiful reminders to behave in a healthy way? Traditional healthcare has always thought of this in terms of the very [...]
Posted in design Tagged behavior, environment, signage
A dollar buys 1000 calories of pizza and 30 calories of spinach.
"People respond to the economics of food choices. Lab scientists aren’t able to handle this concept—for them, talking about the price of food is taboo—but it’s extremely important. Americans spend about three dollars and seventy-five cents a day on food that they eat at home. They can eat pizza at about a thousand calories a [...]
Posted in health Tagged food, sustainability
A font for Doctors Without Borders.
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is proud to announce the release of “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The font consists entirely of ampersands, to represent the idea of people coming together to help one another. Type designers, graphic designers, [...]
Posted in design Tagged graphic design
You are where you eat.
Developed by the USDA's Economic Research Service, the Food Environment Atlas is an interactive map that allows users to create custom county-by-county maps based on 90 different "food environment factors" based on data culled from a wide array of sources--including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the University of Illinois, [...]
Posted in health Tagged food, infographic, obesity
The world’s cheapest mobile phone.
The Vodafone 150 will sell for less than $15. The implications of this in the developing world are quite huge. Consider Frontline SMS: Medic: In the developing world, lack of infrastructure prevents health workers from delivering efficient healthcare to rural areas. As health workers travel from clinics to reach isolated patients, they are often as disconnected [...]
When you lose a leg, you don’t just lose a leg.
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Breaking health conventions to create comfort.