Health Co-Creation in Social Innovation: Design Service for Health-Empowered Society in China

Abstract

Health is not only an individual or personal issue but a social related outcome co-created by a wide range of stakeholders. As public health challenge is proved to be a social issue, design service to promote social innovation could be an effective approach for health-empowered society. In China, designers co-created innovative service with stakeholders to promote social innovation approaching public health. Through some cases, how the service design tools and methods are applied to co-design healthcare service to meet the local need and how social innovation are co-created under the local social context are introduced. In the end, the effect of design strategies for health-empowered society through co-created social innovation are analysed.