title: Creating health and health promoting hospitals: a worthy challenge for the twenty-first century.
abstract: States that it seems self-evident that a hospital should be a healing environment, a healthy place to work, should not harm the health of the environment and should contribute to and be a source of health in the community, but argues that hospitals have not paid a great deal of attention to many of these issues until recently. Suggests that in recent years, a new and broader understanding of health promotion has led to a re-examination of the ways in which hospitals can be both healthy and health-promoting. Begins by exploring the broader concepts of health promotion that lay the foundation for the creation of healthy and health-promoting hospitals and provides some examples of how these approaches are being applied.
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authors.lastname: Hancock
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor; D002170:Canada; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings / Q000592:standards; D008019:Life Style; D016272:Occupational Health; D010944:Plants; D012941:Social Responsibility