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This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings,
and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in
hospitals and other healthcare settings. Positing good air quality
as critical to patient and staff well-being, it identifies
disease-carrying microbes, pollutants, and other airborne toxins
and their health risks, and provides localized interventions for
reducing transmission of pathogens. Effective large-scale
approaches to air quality control are also outlined, from green
building materials to hygienic HVAC and air treatment practices.
Its thoroughness of coverage makes this book a vital resource for
professionals involved in every aspect of health service
facilities, from planning and construction to maintenance and
management. Among the topics covered: Existing guidelines in indoor
air quality: the case study of hospital environments Hospital
environments and epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections
Analysis of microorganisms in hospital environments and potential
risks Legionella indoor air contamination in healthcare
environments HVAC system design in healthcare facilities and
control of aerosol contaminants Assessment of indoor air quality in
inpatient wards Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities imparts
up-to-date expertise to a variety of professional readers,
including hospitals' technical and management departments,
healthcare facilities' chief medical officers, hospital planners,
sport and thermal building designers, public health departments,
and students of universities and schools of hygiene.
This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare
(SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original
multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and
improve hospitals’ overall sustainability. The comprehensive
nature of the appraisal offered by this tool exceeds the scope of
most current rating systems, which typically permit a thorough
evaluation of relevant environmental factors when designing a new
building but fail to consider social and economic impacts of the
design phase or the performance of the hospital’s operational
structure in these fields. The multidisciplinary evaluation system
was developed, from its very inception through to its testing, by
following a scientific experimental method in which a global
perspective was constantly maintained, as opposed to a focus only
on specific technical issues. Application of the SustHealth rating
tool to a currently functioning hospital, or one under design, will
identify weaknesses and guide users to potential low-cost
short-term solutions and longer-term strategies for improvement.
This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare
(SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original
multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and
improve hospitals' overall sustainability. The comprehensive nature
of the appraisal offered by this tool exceeds the scope of most
current rating systems, which typically permit a thorough
evaluation of relevant environmental factors when designing a new
building but fail to consider social and economic impacts of the
design phase or the performance of the hospital's operational
structure in these fields. The multidisciplinary evaluation system
was developed, from its very inception through to its testing, by
following a scientific experimental method in which a global
perspective was constantly maintained, as opposed to a focus only
on specific technical issues. Application of the SustHealth rating
tool to a currently functioning hospital, or one under design, will
identify weaknesses and guide users to potential low-cost
short-term solutions and longer-term strategies for improvement.
The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions
about the location of healthcare facilities. Supported by
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision
Analysis (MCDA), the approach provides comprehensive information on
territory, taking into account the spatial dimensions. Due to the
multiple criteria involved, site selection for urban facilities is
a crucial topic in planning decision processes, especially for
healthcare facilities. Healthcare provision policies generally fail
to address the distribution of facilities within cities, entrusting
decisions to various stakeholders. Moreover current evaluation
tools focus on the intrinsic performances of healthcare structures,
disregarding the extrinsic characteristics, namely those related to
the location. Starting with a cross-disciplinary literature review,
the book describes a multi-methodological approach for
decision-making regarding the location of healthcare facilities,
and presents an innovative evaluation tool that simultaneously
considers functional, locational, environmental and economic
issues, providing a comprehensive overview of the areas under
investigation.
Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and
healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the
methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the
book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize
therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation,
interaction, and social inclusion. It addresses all the technical
and medical professionals - like Architects, Urban Planners,
Agronomist, Sociologists, Epidemiologists, Public Health experts,
Policy Makers, etc. - wishing to explore the link between built
environment, well-being, and health, referring in particular to the
direct relationship between places and therapy.
This multidisciplinary book brings together medical, management,
and architectural disciplines in order to formulate new approaches
to the programming, planning, and design of healthcare facilities
that will improve the quality of healthcare systems in rapidly
developing countries, respecting local culture. It achieves this
aim by drawing upon case studies on healthcare facilities and
services that were undertaken in Kolkata, India, where the public
healthcare system is meager and most people do not have access to
health services. The approaches presented pay appropriate attention
to technical aspects and organizational set-up and are designed to
achieve an adequate healthcare assistance, greater production
efficiency, better use of local professional resources, and careful
control of construction. They are also intended to promote
educational progress and future independence in construction and
management of the healthcare system. The book will appeal to all
with an interest in design and organizational strategies to meet
new healthcare challenges in India and other emerging countries.
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