Improving Sustainability During Hospital Design and Operation A Multidisciplinary Evaluation Tool /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Capolongo, Stefano (Editor), Bottero, Marta Carla (Editor), Buffoli, Maddalena (Editor), Lettieri, Emanuele (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Energy systems.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Health administration.; Facility management.; Facility Management.; Health Care Management.; Health Administration.; Energy Systems.

This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals’ overall sustainability. The comprehensive nature of the appraisal offered by this tool...

Table of Contents:

• Healthcare sustainability challenge
• Current scenario analysis
• Healthcare sustainability evaluation systems
• A multidisciplinary sustainable evaluation system for operative and in-design hospitals
• Economic Sustainability
• Social Sustainability
• Environmental Sustainability
• Testing the SustHealth evaluation system.