title: Hospital architecture in the new era.
abstract: This paper will address 'health care' from a different perspective: The initial observation is that, for the most part, that which exists is 'sickness care' and not. Since early in the 20th Century, or before, public health has had a reduced effect on the preventitive aspects of the health of people. Only recently has emphasis begun to be placed on the prevention of disease and trauma through broad-based programs that include improving healthy life styles and the reduction of communicable diseases. Architects and their clients around the world, it is argued, have contributed to the lack of the preventitive aspect by what is referred to as their 'Edifice Complex', or the desire to build huge buildings that cause traffic problems, create pollution and make easy access to health care even more remote.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Axon
mesh_terms: D001108:Architecture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006801:Humans