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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.

Medicine. --- Health promotion. --- Practice of medicine. --- Environmental health. --- Air pollution. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Practice and Hospital Management. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Environmental Health. --- Indoor air quality. --- Health facilities --- Environmental services. --- Environmental services in health facilities --- Quality of indoor air --- Air quality --- Administration --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental Medicine. --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Health Workforce --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Health risk assessment --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Air --- Air contaminants --- Air pollutants --- Air pollution --- Air pollution control --- Air toxics --- Airborne pollutants --- Atmosphere --- Contaminants, Air --- Control of air pollution --- Pollutants, Air --- Toxics, Air --- Pollution --- Atmospheric deposition --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Control --- Hospitals --- Pollution. --- Medicine, Preventive. --- Administration. --- Disease prevention --- Diseases --- Prevention of disease --- Preventive medicine --- Preventive medicine physicians --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Hospital administration --- Hospital management --- Health services administration --- Management --- Prevention --- Management and regulation

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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. .

Practice of medicine. --- Facility management. --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Urban geography. --- Practice and Hospital Management. --- Facility Management. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Facilities management --- Factory management --- Plant engineering --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Geography --- Spatial economics --- Economics --- Regional economics --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Decision making --- Health facilities --- Decision support systems. --- Location --- Centres mèdics --- Espai (Geografia) --- Gestió hospitalària --- Presa de decisions --- Decisions (Psicologia) --- Presa de decisió --- Teoria de la decisió --- Teoria de l'estimació --- Teoria de jocs --- Decisió de grup --- Dilema --- Estadística bayesiana --- Presa de decisions multicriteri --- Elecció (Psicologia) --- Òrgans consultius --- Resolució de problemes --- Administració dels hospitals --- Administració hospitalària --- Administració sanitària --- Direcció d'empreses --- Ingressos i altes en els hospitals --- Espai en geografia --- Espai geogràfic --- Geografia i espai --- Geografia humana --- Geografia física --- Hospitals

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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.

Nature protection --- History of human medicine --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Social medicine --- Human medicine --- Air pollution. Air purification --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- preventieve gezondheidszorg --- ziekenhuismanagement --- geneeskunde --- milieuhygiëne --- gezondheidspromotie --- luchtverontreiniging --- milieuzorg --- milieubescherming

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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.

Engineering. --- Facility Management. --- Health Care Management. --- Health Administration. --- Energy Systems. --- Practice of medicine. --- Ingénierie --- Hospital buildings -- Design and construction. --- Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Hospital buildings --- Sustainable buildings --- Design and construction. --- Ecologically sustainable design (Buildings) --- Environmentally sustainable design (Buildings) --- ESD design (Buildings) --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- Hospitals --- Construction --- Design and construction --- Energy systems. --- Health care management. --- Health services administration. --- Health administration. --- Facility management. --- Medical practice --- Practice of medicine --- Physician practice acquisitions --- Health administration --- Health care administration --- Health care management --- Health sciences administration --- Health services management --- Medical care --- Health planning --- Public health administration --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Administration --- Management --- Facilities management --- Factory management --- Plant engineering

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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.

Thermodynamics --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Relation between energy and economics --- Physical distribution --- facility management --- gezondheidszorg --- gezondheidsvoorzieningen --- energietechniek