Sustainable product
EcoDialysis
Sustainability in the treatment of chronic diseases
Challenge
The research project addresses the environmental impacts of chronic haemodialysis treatments to assess the economic, environmental and social potential of a sustainable design of treatment products and systems.
Results
The project analysed packaging, machinery and treatment systems in three different European dialysis centres, identifying qualitative and quantitative sustainability issues and defining specific sets of guidelines for dialysis treatment design.
General Info
- Typology:
- Institutional research project, international
- Partner:
- Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (Sweden), Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Biologiche, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy), Ospedale Universitario San Luigi Gonzaga (Italy), Skåne University Ospital (Sweden), Frederiksberg Hospital
- Scientific supervisor:
- Amina Pereno
- Project team:
- Silvia Barbero, Silvia Lonoce, Agnese Pallaro, Paolo Tamborrini, Imanol Urizar
Gallery
Notes
Part of the research was conducted as part of the PhD 'Systemic Design for Sustainable Healthcare. Designing for the treatment of chronic diseases' (Pereno, 2017).
Publications
Pereno, A. (2018). Systemic design towards user-centered sustainability in medical treatments. In: 6th Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD6), Oslo, Norway: AHO. https://rsdsymposium.org/systemic-design-towards-user-centered-sustainability-in-medical-treatments/
Barbero, S., Pereno, A., & Tamborrini, P. (2017). Systemic innovation in sustainable design of medical devices. In: 12th European Academy of Design Conference - Design for Next, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352763
Pereno, A., Nazha, M., Tamborrini, P. (2015). Packaging design in the healthcare field: eco-guidelines for sustainable packaging and disposables in dialysis treatments. In: 3rd European Conference on Design4Health, Sheffield, UK.
Piccoli, G.B., Nazha, M., Ferraresi, M., Vigotti, F.N., Pereno, A., & Barbero, S. (2015) Eco-dialysis: the financial and ecological costs of dialysis waste products: is a ‘cradle-to-cradle’ model feasible for planet-friendly haemodialysis waste management? Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 30 (6), 1018-1027.
Ferraresi, M., et al. (2014). Ecodialysis: first strategies to limit damages and reduce costs. Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, 31(5).
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