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What is human-centered health care and why is it important?

An excerpt from Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health. Design is the ancient practice of shaping materials to achieve goals and express beliefs. Human beings and other creatures make tools and build structures in order to…

An excerpt from Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health.

Design is the ancient practice of shaping materials to achieve goals and express beliefs. Human beings and other creatures make tools and build structures in order to survive, thrive, and dominate their surroundings. Unlike other organisms, people learn from each other, creating new ideas and inventions that spread quickly.

Designers learn to look at a …

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What is human-centered health care and why is it important?