Improving healthcare value: integrating medical practitioners into hospital design in developing countries
The cost of healthcare is a burden in most developing countries, and this is exponentially increasing in the context of population growth, pandemics, and rapidly evolving medical necessities. A customized healthcare typology should rely on data collection and architectural requirements, before movi...
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The cost of healthcare is a burden in most developing countries, and this is exponentially increasing in the context of population growth, pandemics, and rapidly evolving medical necessities. A customized healthcare typology should rely on data collection and architectural requirements, before moving to aesthetically compelling designs, so hospitals in low-resource or developing countries will not mimic their Western counterparts. The greatest bearing that improves the patient’s outcome and well-being would engage a productive interaction between the hospital designers and the medical practitioners, this will also allow for evidence-based hospital planning. As the author of this short report, I use the best of my experience as a physician and healthcare planner to translate a successful interaction with multinational designers building hospitals in Rivers State, Nigeria.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e6cd8b4a139a4daaab8cc95e3f34f7302024-04-03T17:28:47ZengPAGEPress PublicationsHealthcare in Low-resource Settings2281-78242023-06-0111110.4081/hls.2023.11183Improving healthcare value: integrating medical practitioners into hospital design in developing countriesCarlos Machhour Noujeim0Port Harcourt Government House Clinic The cost of healthcare is a burden in most developing countries, and this is exponentially increasing in the context of population growth, pandemics, and rapidly evolving medical necessities. A customized healthcare typology should rely on data collection and architectural requirements, before moving to aesthetically compelling designs, so hospitals in low-resource or developing countries will not mimic their Western counterparts. The greatest bearing that improves the patient’s outcome and well-being would engage a productive interaction between the hospital designers and the medical practitioners, this will also allow for evidence-based hospital planning. As the author of this short report, I use the best of my experience as a physician and healthcare planner to translate a successful interaction with multinational designers building hospitals in Rivers State, Nigeria. https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/hls/article/view/11183Hospital designdeveloping countriesmedical caregivershealth outcome |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Machhour Noujeim Improving healthcare value: integrating medical practitioners into hospital design in developing countries Healthcare in Low-resource Settings Hospital design developing countries medical caregivers health outcome |
| title | Improving healthcare value: integrating medical practitioners into hospital design in developing countries |
| title_full | Improving healthcare value: integrating medical practitioners into hospital design in developing countries |
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| title_short | Improving healthcare value: integrating medical practitioners into hospital design in developing countries |
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| topic | Hospital design developing countries medical caregivers health outcome |
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