The Swedish Health Promoting Healthcare network and the built environment
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

The Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) networks, founded by the World Health Organisation, support the introduction of health promotion in healthcare. This development involves the creation of a health promoting built environment. However, few studies have explored the HPH in relation to the built environments, and it is unclear how HPH-networks incorporate the built environment in their work. The study therefore examined the Swedish HPH-Network in relation to the built environment. The mixed-method study included data from (i) key online material from the Swedish network, (ii) a survey with open-ended questions of representatives of the networks’ workgroups and (iii) semi-structured interviews with the built environment workgroup. The study showed that the built environment is unevenly and incoherently incorporated in the network. Moreover, there is more attention for healing and healthy rather than health-promotive strategies, indicating a knowledge gap. Descriptions of the health promoting built environment are diverse, and address design features, design strategies or indicate places for health promotion interventions. The descriptions of the built environment are combined with various HPH goals and population groups. To utilize the built environment as a resource for HPHs, the networks should consider incorporating the built environment in documents and action plans at all organizational levels.

healthcare facilities

health promoting environments

built environment

salutogenesis

health-promoting hospitals

Författare

Elke Miedema

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Arkitekturens teori och metod

Göran Lindahl

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign

Marie Elf

Högskolan i Dalarna

Health Promotion International

0957-4824 (ISSN) 1460-2245 (eISSN)

Vol. 37 1 1-11 daab101

Rum för hälsa och livskvalitet: Integrerade former för boende, åldrande och sjukvård

Formas (244-2013-1835), 2013-11-12 -- 2019-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi

Arkitektur

Omvårdnad

Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Styrkeområden

Hälsa och teknik

DOI

10.1093/heapro/daab101

PubMed

34244726

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2022-06-13