An overview of healing environments.
Stress is a major obstacle to the healing process and it is partly linked to the quality of the environment. Many examples of healing environments throughout time can confirm the primitive human need for healing or therapeutic facilities. Since the Modern Movement of architecture, hospital design has evolved and adjusted to the changing needs. Nowadays, it is considered to be a function of multiple variables. It is an architect's duty to design an environment (the term environment in this case includes all of its interpretations; natural, built, interior and exterior) that will propose security and will positively affect the recovering patient.
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D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D038622:Internationality; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control