Author: United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical FacilitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Lighting for Hospital Patient Rooms
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical FacilitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Lighting and Colour for Hospital Design
Author: Hilary DalkePublisher: Stationery Office/Tso
ISBN: 9780113224913
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
The quality of the visual hospital environment can have a positive psychological effect on patient recovery and staff performance. This guidance document focuses on the visual environment in hospitals and healthcare buildings, and the use of appropriate colour design and lighting. It was written jointly by BRE and the Colour Design Research Centre at London South Bank University, as part of a Department of Health funded project.
Design for Health
Author: Emmanuel TseklevesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317152506
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
One of the most complex global challenges is improving wellbeing and developing strategies for promoting health or preventing ‘illbeing’ of the population. The role of designers in indirectly supporting the promotion of healthy lifestyles or in their contribution to illbeing has emerged. This means designers now need to consider, both morally and ethically, how they can ensure that they ‘do no harm’ and that they might deliberately decide to promote healthy lifestyles and therefore prevent ill health. Design for Health illustrates the history of the development of design for health, the various design disciplines and domains to which design has contributed. Through 26 case studies presented in this book, the authors reveal a plethora of design research methodologies and research methods employed in design for health. The editors also present, following a thematic analysis of the book chapters, seven challenges and seven areas of opportunity that designers are called upon to address within the context of healthcare. Furthermore, five emergent trends in design in healthcare are presented and discussed. This book will be of interest to students of design as well as designers and those working to improve the quality of healthcare.
Lighting Guide 2
Author: Nikolas BukorovićPublisher:
ISBN: 9781523137862
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Advances in Patient Safety
Author: Kerm HenriksenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Lighting for Hospital Patient Rooms
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical FacilitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Evidence-Based Patient Handling
Author: Pat AlexanderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134578105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Evidence-Based Patient Handling tackles the challenge of producing an evidence base to support clinical practice and provides the foundation for future practices.
Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities
Author: AIA Academy of Architecture for HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reflecting the most current thinking about infection control and the environment of care, this new edition also explores functional, space, and equipment requirements for acute care and psychiatric hospitals; nursing, outpatient, and rehabilitation facilities; mobile health care units; and facilities for hospice care, adult day care, and assisted living. [Editor, p. 4 cov.]
Lightning Flowers
Author: Katherine E. StandeferPublisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316450359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.
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