Abstract

Cervical cancer is completely preventable if detected in its early stages. However, it continues to be a public health problem worldwide and is one of the threats to the lives of women. The central strategy of prevention has been screening with cervical-uterine cytology. Nevertheless, in countries with upper-middle-income economies as Colombia, implementation of Pap test, a screening method, has not been successful due to administrative and logistical obstacles of health systems, infrastructure, social misinformation, women matter of indifference, long distances between household and healthcare centers, and women in lower-resource settings. Accordingly, we have conducted a transdisciplinary approach following Design Thinking method to tackle those barriers out which impede health services accessibility in Cali, Colombia. In this paper, we present how the team understood the challenge, how the team empathized with the users and different actors around the problem, and the main learnings obtained after testing different solution prototypes with users.

Presenters

Paula Cristina Bermudez
Student, PH DR, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA CALI, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Daniela Neira

Diana Castrillon

Andres Guerrero

Giann Aguirre

Jorge Botero

Natalia Jimenez

Juan Garcia Cifuentes

Marcela Arrivillaga

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Health Promotion and Education

KEYWORDS

Screening, Cancer, Barriers

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