Cyclical experience-based design: A proposal for engaging stakeholders in a co-creative model for primary health care service design.

Healthcare services face difficulties in using structured methods for service design and having patient participation in such processes. There are few models on healthcare service design and even less focused on Primary Health Care (PHC) in the literature. Therefore, this paper contributes to this domain by presenting the proposal of a co-creative model to design PHC services.

Simulating the influence of physical overload on assembly line performance: A case study in an automotive electrical component plant.

Although the workstations of a Brazilian automotive electrical harness production line are set close to TAKT time (the production rate required to meet demand), factory performance is compromised regarding: (i) sick leaves due to occupational disease (105 employees last year) and (ii) a production rate at only 42% of capacity. Our objective was to simulate the performance of a production line balanced against physical overload by the addition of an extra workstation. Based on ergonomic work analysis, the study applied System Dynamics at the global observation stage to obtain a systemic interpretation of the factors involved in production line performance.

[Recyclable material waste pickers: an analysis of working conditions and operational infrastructure in the south, southeast and northeast of Brazil].

This work is a survey of information gathered from waste pickers in the south, southeast and northeast of Brazil in order to provide input for the development of a waste collection vehicle and a support system to define waste collection routes. Thus, the research sought to establish the profile of waste pickers, diagnose their working conditions and identify the physical and operational structure of the organizations to which they are linked. To achieve these objectives it was necessary to apply questionnaires to waste pickers from organizations who performed the collection of recyclable materials using human- and animal-drawn vehicles and the waste picking organizations themselves.