HOSPITAL DESIGNING

Introduction: Environmental Health Services:

The society’s health is influenced by the accessibility, affordability, It covers the following:
quality, availability and utilisation of health services.
1. Water supply
Economic growth has had a positive bearing on improving the health 2. Pollution control
indictors such as life expectancy at birth, morbidity and mortality rates, 3. Sewage disposal
and in improving the quality of life. 4. Food hygiene
5. Ecology and environmental pollution
“Medical care is a programme of services that should
make available to individual, and thereby to the
community, all facilities of medical and allied
services necessary to promote and maintain health of
Public Health Services:
mind and body. This programme should take into
account the physical, social and family environment, Public health services are concerned with the following:
with a view to the prevention of disease, the 1. Control of communicable disease.
restoration of health and alleviation of disability.” 2. Sanitation
− WHO, 1959 3. Maternal and child health
4. Public health education
“A Hospital is an integral part of a social and 5. Vital statistics
Medical organisation, the function of which is to 6. Health planning
provide for the population complete health care, 7. Occupational health and reduction of health hazard.
both curative and preventive, and whose outpatient
services reach out to the family and its home
environment; the hospital is also a centre for the
training of health workers and biosocial research. Personal Health Services:
The care provided has been traditionally classified into:
− WHO definition
A. Promotion of Health,
of Hospital
B. Prevention of disease
C. Early diagnosis and treatment
Myth burst: D. Rehabilitation.

Health is not defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social

wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease it can be described as-
“Optimal physical, mental and social adaptation to one’s environment.”

Health can not be isolated from other socioeconomic factors in a

development process.