ABSTRACT
Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design explains how environment-behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research and explores how evidence-based theories can be applied and integrated into the healthcare design practice.
Drawing on EB theories and the latest research in environment-behavior studies, this book shows how the healthcare environment can positively impact patients' and caregivers' well-being and healthcare organization's efficiency by modifying environmental attributes, such as space configuration, color, lighting, signage, acoustics, and artwork. It addresses a range of healthcare facilities including children's hospitals, long-term care, acute care and outpatient care facilities, and uses a range of evidence-based design research methods, such as interviews, focus groups, observations, surveys and space syntax. The author also explains how research evidence and evidence-based design can be integrated into healthcare design more cohesively in a redefined design process. This book provides a solid conceptual structure that informs a clear map for understanding the EB theories and their applications in healthcare design.
This research guide for healthcare design helps students, academics, designers and architects reconsider how to create environments that support patients’ healing and well-being whilst considering efficiency and safety.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
Introduction
part 1|35 pages
Environment-Behavior Studies
chapter Chapter 1|16 pages
Introduction to Environment-Behavior Studies
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
Fundamental Theories in Environment-Behavior Studies
part 2|209 pages
Environment-Behavior Theories for Healthcare Design
chapter Chapter 3|31 pages
Environmental Cognition Theory (Wayfinding Theory)
chapter Chapter 4|64 pages
Environmental Stress Theory, Therapeutic Environment Theory, and Environmental Press Theory
chapter Chapter 5|26 pages
Privacy, Personal Space, Territoriality, and Crowding
chapter Chapter 6|28 pages
Control Theory
chapter Chapter 7|30 pages
Environmental Preference Theory
chapter Chapter 8|27 pages
Environmental Perception (Gestalt Theory), Place Attachment Theory, and Environmental Affordance Theory
part 3|93 pages
Integrating Research for Healthcare Design