Another Good Reason for Natural Light in Hospitals (04-26-12)
Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver identified another good reason to flood the interiors of healthcare facilities with daylight.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver identified another good reason to flood the interiors of healthcare facilities with daylight.
This book thoroughly reviews the relationship between the form of the built environment and human physical and psychological well-being.
Healthcare environments—long-term-care homes, therapist offices, children's waiting rooms, labor and delivery rooms, neo-natal units, and new hospitals—continue to be carefully researched.
Patients and doctors often must have frank conversations about personal issues. What is the best design for the rooms in which these conversations take place?
Recent work by Uchiyama and his colleagues confirms the influence of sensory experiences on physical health and the importance of providing patients with opportunities to listen to music.
Devlin and Nasar continue their important and innovative research on the design of therapists’ offices.
Public health researchers have probed the influence of color coding food and the design of food displays on consumption of healthier and less healthy meal options.
British psychologists have learned that all that time we spend sitting at work has repercussions beyond the size of the posterior we’re sitting on.
Research readily available to healthcare designers for some time has indicated that listening to music seems to reduce the perceived painfulness of medical procedures.
Although research recently conducted at Cornell and London Metropolitan University relates to adult’s and children’s plates, it ultimately may be shown to have repercussions for a broad range of design decisions - such as color use in healthcare facilities where eating needs to be encouraged (e.g., anorexia treatment facilities) – particularly when adults are designing these sorts of spaces for child users.