Motivation: This research focuses on empowering the patients in chronic health care ecosystems by supporting resource integration activities through systemic service design approaches. The motivation stems from the need for a holistic approach in chronic care, where diverse medical and informal resources must be coordinated and integrated over time to adapt to patients' changing needs, and from the need for design approaches that integrate ecosystem-level perspectives with individual care processes to effectively support resource integration. Focus: Thus, this PhD research proposes and discusses a novel interpretation of understanding patient empowerment process by looking at how resources could be integrated. Together with, it highlights the role of design in addressing the complex and rigid nature of the chronic health care ecosystems by focusing on how different resources emerge, are identified, and come together. Methodology: To do so, this study adopts qualitative research by integrating empirical data collection with theoretical insights to gain a more articulated understanding of the research focus. Findings and Contributions: This research provides the “Systemic Service Design for Resources Integration in a Multidimensional Patient Empowerment Process”, that reframes patient empowerment as a dynamic process of resource integration across personal, relational, and collective dimensions. It highlights how systemic service design can create conditions for meaningful engagement by supporting patients in recognizing, accessing, and activating resources at key moments.
Motivazione: Questa ricerca si concentra sull’empowerment dei pazienti all'interno degli ecosistemi di cura delle malattie croniche, supportando le attività di integrazione delle risorse attraverso approcci di progettazione sistemica dei servizi. La motivazione nasce dalla necessità di un approccio olistico nella cura delle malattie croniche, in cui risorse mediche e informali eterogenee devono essere coordinate e integrate nel tempo per adattarsi ai bisogni mutevoli dei pazienti, e dalla necessità di approcci progettuali che integrino prospettive a livello di ecosistema con i processi di cura individuali, al fine di supportare efficacemente l’integrazione delle risorse. Focus: Questa ricerca di dottorato propone e discute una nuova interpretazione del processo di empowerment del paziente, analizzando come le risorse possano essere integrate. Inoltre, evidenzia il ruolo del design nell'affrontare la natura complessa e rigida degli ecosistemi di cura delle malattie croniche, concentrandosi su come le diverse risorse emergano, vengano identificate e si connettano tra loro. Metodologia: Per raggiungere questi obiettivi, lo studio adotta un approccio di ricerca qualitativa, integrando la raccolta di dati empirici con approfondimenti teorici, al fine di ottenere una comprensione più articolata dell’oggetto di ricerca. Risultati e Contributi: Questa ricerca propone il modello di “Progettazione Sistemica dei Servizi per l’Integrazione delle Risorse in un Processo Multidimensionale di Empowerment del Paziente”, che riformula l’empowerment come un processo dinamico di integrazione delle risorse nelle dimensioni personale, relazionale e collettiva. Mette in luce come la progettazione sistemica dei servizi possa creare le condizioni per un coinvolgimento significativo, supportando i pazienti nel riconoscere, accedere e attivare risorse nei momenti chiave.
Systemic service design for patient empowerment in chronic care: a resource integration perspective
SULTAN SERPIL, ERDÖNMEZ
2025
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Motivation: This research focuses on empowering the patients in chronic health care ecosystems by supporting resource integration activities through systemic service design approaches. The motivation stems from the need for a holistic approach in chronic care, where diverse medical and informal resources must be coordinated and integrated over time to adapt to patients' changing needs, and from the need for design approaches that integrate ecosystem-level perspectives with individual care processes to effectively support resource integration. Focus: Thus, this PhD research proposes and discusses a novel interpretation of understanding patient empowerment process by looking at how resources could be integrated. Together with, it highlights the role of design in addressing the complex and rigid nature of the chronic health care ecosystems by focusing on how different resources emerge, are identified, and come together. Methodology: To do so, this study adopts qualitative research by integrating empirical data collection with theoretical insights to gain a more articulated understanding of the research focus. Findings and Contributions: This research provides the “Systemic Service Design for Resources Integration in a Multidimensional Patient Empowerment Process”, that reframes patient empowerment as a dynamic process of resource integration across personal, relational, and collective dimensions. It highlights how systemic service design can create conditions for meaningful engagement by supporting patients in recognizing, accessing, and activating resources at key moments.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/356051
URN:NBN:IT:POLIMI-356051