[Interdisciplinary Recommendations for the Development of Health Kiosks as Low-Threshold, Community Care Structures.]

Abstract

In a termsheet released on 31st of August 2022, the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany proclaimed its intention to establish 1,000 health kiosks across the country. The aim of this innovation was to improve and coordinate access to healthcare, especially for people with higher requirements for support and in rural areas. Communes hold the right to initiate the local establishment of health kiosks while being funded mainly by health insurance companies. However, ways of regional implementation of these health kiosks are yet to be sorted out. In the following interdisciplinary mixed-methods research project, health-related social work and design sciences examine how health kiosks can be arranged under current conditions. Our study provides local authorities with a catalogue of methods for promoting interdisciplinary cooperation as well as practical recommendations and prototype design proposals in the form of a blueprint for the independent development and implementation of locally adapted health kiosks.