Emerging Trends in Health Care: Implications for the Built Environment, an Agenda for Research. Environmental Design Research, Problems and Needs

摘要

The report provides an agenda for environmental design research (EDR) that responds to emerging trends in health care. An overview of these trends includes disease and hazard prevention, health promotion, quality assurance, and cost-containment. The implications of these trends for the built environment are discussed. A survey of EDR is presented--its domain, its methods, its practitioners, and its relation to design. Also presented is an indication of the potential of EDR to contribute to improvements in health and health care, and an agenda of the major areas in which research is needed. Several non-research needs that directly affect the quality of EDR results and their usefulness to practicing designers are clarified. The appendix includes a Veterans Administration hospital report which contains both a referenced overview of the effects of health care facilities on those who use them and an indexed, annotated bibliography of 263 related articles and books.