Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

This article looks at case studies of service-learning partnerships in an introductory interior design course supporting community health education, which illustrates how a creative approach can result in tangible benefits for students and community members. Service-learning was incorporated into the basic skills curriculum in which students designed spaces for community health facilities. This model illustrates the process for linking project-based learning strategies to theory and practice by fostering exposure to rural community health problems and by addressing the issue of improving the environment of health care facilities through authentic and relevant design models. (author)