Primary Care Women ’s Health Screening: A Case Study of a Community Engaged Human Centered Design Approach to Enhancing the Screening Process

ConclusionOur co-designed women ’s health screening tool is a first step towards addressing screening barriers from both primary care provider’s and community women’s perspectives. Future research will explore the facilitators of and barriers to implementing the tools in different primary care settings. Future work should al so more systematically examine whether and how screening processes may reinforce or contribute to women’s feelings of being stereotyped, and how screening processes can be designed to avoid stereotype threat, which has the potential to reduce the effectiveness of screenings intended to promote wom en’s health.
Source: Maternal and Child Health Journal - Category: Health Management Source Type: research