Therapy by design: evaluating the UK hospital building program

Gesler, Wilbert M.; Bell, Morag; Curtis, Sarah; Hubbard, Phil; Francis, Susan

doi:10.1016/s1353-8292(03)00052-2

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“…The present analysis also provides important insights into larger debates that exist within the social and health sciences. Continuing with the example of health geography, researchers in this discipline have longstanding interests in understanding the therapeutic or healing potential of health care environments, such as hospitals (e.g., Gesler, Bell, Curtis, Hubbard, & Francis, 2004;Kearns & Barnett, 2000;Williams, 2007). Our analysis of the international marketing of medical tourism makes two important contributions to this debate.…”

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Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

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Snyder

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Social Science & Medicine

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The practice of medical tourism depends on successfully informing potential patients about procedure options, treatment facilities, tourism opportunities, travel arrangements, and destination countries. The promotion of medical tourism includes a wide range of marketing materials such as flyers, booklets, and websites. Yet, there is a paucity of knowledge about the dissemination, content, and reception of these promotional materials. Drawing on a thematic content analysis of the promotional print material distributed at the first medical tourism trade show in Canada in 2009, the main purpose of this article is to identify and understand the messages and images that companies use to market India as a global destination. While researchers and news media frequently cite low cost procedures as a key determinant for international patient travel, particularly to developing nations, our analysis reveals few low costrelated images or messages in the promotional materials distributed at the trade show. To help explain this surprising disjuncture, we consider four related issues: (1) promotional materials may be designed to be circulated amongst potential patients' concerned family and friends who privilege knowing about things such as the use of advanced technologies; (2) developing nations need to portray safe and advanced treatment facilities in order to dispel potential patients' suspicions that their medical care is inferior; (3) companies may avoid making cost saving claims that cannot be fulfilled for all of their international patients, especially those traveling from developing nations; and (4) messages of low cost may detract from and even undermine messages about quality. We conclude by identifying numerous avenues for future research by social and health scientists, and by considering the implications of our findings for existing knowledge gaps and debates within health geography specifically.

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Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

Crooks

Turner

Snyder

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“…3). Interestingly, in theories of the therapeutic effect of buildings and interiors, the level of instruction that is built into, for instance, an institution such as a hospital is foregrounded as an important dimension for patient's well-being (Gesler et al 2004). …”

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Staging a Caring Atmosphere: Child-Friendliness in Barnahus as a Multidimensional Phenomenon

Stefansen

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“…Gesler et al, 2004). However, the interests of patients and carers may be better promoted through a more explicit symbolism, acknowledging mental health care in terms of more profound moral principles of respect and dignity.…”

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“…We consider how this dynamic perspective contributes to ideas about psychiatric hospitals as 'therapeutic landscapes' (Gesler et al, 2004;Campling et al, 2004;Curtis et al, 2007;Karlin & Zeiss, 2006;Ruane, 2004;Schweitzer et al, 2004), which are not only 'clinically efficient' but also offer physical, social and symbolic features that are beneficial for one's sense of wellbeing and therefore help to promote healing in a more holistic sense. Brown (2003, p. 490) suggests that 'health care facilities hold a position of symbolic significance within their localities' and that 'the sense of ownership' by the community is important for the way they are perceived.…”

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Creating ‘therapeutic landscapes’ for mental health carers in inpatient settings: A dynamic perspective on permeability and inclusivity

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(2013) 'Creating 'therapeutic landscapes' for mental health carers in inpatient settings : a dynamic perspective on permeability and inclusivity.', Social science medicine., 91 . pp. 122-129. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.045 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social Science Medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Social Science Medicine, 91, 2013Medicine, 91, , 10.1016Medicine, 91, /j.socscimed.2012 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Creating 'therapeutic landscapes' for mental health carers in inpatient settings: a dynamic perspective on permeability and inclusivity. Authors and affiliations:Dr ABSTRACT: Although there has been a shift toward treatment in the home and the community, in the UK inpatient facilities are still important in modern mental health care.'Informal carers', including family members, often play an essential role, not only in providing care in the community but also in care of patients during periods of hospitalisation. UK National Health Service policies increasingly consider the position of these carers as 'partners' in the care process, but relatively little attention has been paid to their position within the hospital settings where treatment is provided for inpatients. This paper contributes to geographical work on carers' experiences, by reporting how this issue emerged through a study focused on perceptions of a newly built hospital, compared with the inpatient facilities it replaced. We draw on qualitative research findings from discussion groups and interviews with informal carers. The material considered here focused especially on carers' views of aspects of the hospital environment that were important for wellbeing of carers and the people they look after. The carers' views were supplemented by relevant material drawn from other interviews from our wider study, which included service users and members of hospital staff. These accounts revealed how informal carers experienced the hospital environment; we interpret our findings through a conceptual framework that emphasises carers' experiences of a 'journey' along a 'caring ...

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Therapy by design: evaluating the UK hospital building program

Cited by 214 publications

References 28 publications

Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

Promoting medical tourism to India: Messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

Staging a Caring Atmosphere: Child-Friendliness in Barnahus as a Multidimensional Phenomenon

Creating ‘therapeutic landscapes’ for mental health carers in inpatient settings: A dynamic perspective on permeability and inclusivity

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