Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Since the 1980s, science about how built environments influence human health has been used by architects, engineers, and designers to inform decisions about health care organizations' structures and spaces. Because design influences health outcomes, ignoring evidence-based design can be a source of clinical, ethical, legal, and organizational liability. This article introduces concepts related to designs' influence on patient and community health outcomes and suggests strategies for health-legal partnering to promote rigor in health care organizational design practices that promote quality and equity in health service delivery.
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Authors: D. Kirk Hamilton, A. Ray Pentecost 3rd
Institution: Texas A&M University
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405288332