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The Covid-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the authors’ analysis, the primary blame rests on a hospital and insurance financial model geared towards providing high priced services rather than meeting all demands for care, including pandemics. Then they outline a plan for creating a hospital sector that can better respond to the population’s health needs during a time of crisis.
Being outdoors in nature is an important factor in staying healthy. Learn more from Mayo Clinic about benefits of being nature.
Three years after the black summer fires, Snowy Valleys council launched a nature trail to help residents work through grief
The garden forever carries the seasons in the soul. Painters and poets have walked among its flowering, and in autumn drawn forth on it.
Desflurane gas has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide, NHS data suggests.
Older adults who lived in an area with more green space had a lower rate of hospitalization for some diseases and dementias, a large study showed.
Improving human health can result in environmental degradation, but the healthcare sector can help address climate change says a University of Melbourne expert
The Australian government may have announced its net zero plan, but it has yet to factor in the health sector or the health of its people.
An international group of experts led by a Queensland-based expert are calling for a complete rethink of indoor air quality in the wake of COVID-19.
My childhood was spent navigating my father’s disability. Then I was told I was facing the possibility of life in a wheelchair myself
Open windows and doors, use fans, and set your aircon to pull fresh air from outside.
If Australia created more age-friendly neighbourhoods — which really are more liveable for everyone — then we wouldn't have to rely so heavily on underfunded, substandard aged-care homes.
Better building codes and some design innovation could greatly improve hygiene, experts say
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Already problems before the pandemic, burnout and turnover among hospitals’ clinical staff have become a crisis. One way to combat them is to design hospitals that promote staff well-being. This article offers three lessons about how to create such supportive environments.
An experimental village in France for people with Alzheimer’s exemplifies the trend for architects to use their skills to improve the wellbeing of people nearing the end of life
A century ago, a well-ventilated building was considered good medicine. But by the time Covid-19 arrived, our buildings could barely breathe. How did that happen? And how do we let the fresh air back in?
The benefits of getting out in nature have been known at least since the 1850s, but not nearly enough Australians are getting out into the greenery.
Kevin Kemp-Smith is an Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy at the Bond Institute of Health and Sport.Have you ever watched someone rush down the beach and plunge into the chilly water at dawn on a freezing winter’s day and thought to yourself, ‘they need their head read’?
The way clinics make patients feel is an important part of their care. Physicians are getting the message.
A rural hospital in an area of Bangladesh vulnerable to rising sea levels has been named winner of the prestigious RIBA International Prize.
Employers need to go beyond the public health orders to ensure their workers are safe from COVID. Here are four key areas to focus on.
Our buildings and cities were not designed to handle a pandemic. But countries around the world are coming up with design ideas, some high-tech and some more basic, to reduce the infection risks.
Investigations at Melbourne hospitals have found it is common for the air in rooms of sick patients to be funnelled into busy corridors, as questions are now raised about the safety of hotel quarantine.
Binish Desai has already made more than 40,000 bricks for projects including homes and factories, and is gearing up to produce 15,000 a day.
Doctors say Australian hospitals are creating huge amounts of unnecessary waste and risking equipment shortages through single-use metalware.
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