The Future Hospital in Global Health Systems: The Future Hospital as an Entity.

Autor: Nj S; Digital Research and Informatics Unit, NIHR Great Ormond Street Biomedical Research Centre at UCL, London, UK., A A; Department of Social Studies of Medicine / School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada., L A; Department of Architecture, Health and Wellbeing Architecture at Aalto University, Aalto, Finland., L C; Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., A C; REAL Centre Team, The Health Foundation, London, UK., M G; Digital Health Programme, World Bank Group, Washington, Columbia, USA., M G; Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., F M; Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia., Y N; Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo, Bunkyō, Japan., Onoka C; College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria., McKee M; Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The International journal of health planning and management [Int J Health Plann Manage] 2025 Jan 02. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Jan 02.
DOI: 10.1002/hpm.3893
Abstrakt: Health care is changing rapidly. Hospitals are, and will remain, an essential setting to deliver it. We discuss how to maximise the benefits of hospitals in the future in different geographic and health system settings, highlighting a series of cross-cutting issues. We do this by exploring the evolving roles of hospitals and the main factors that we must consider as they adapt. These include changing population and disease profiles, the impact of evolving technology, and new concepts in hospital design and planning. Our focus is on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while ensuring equitable access, even if strategic decisions require compromise across these functions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of hospitals in societies while also revealing the limitations of current structures and the potential of technology to transform hospital services within the broader healthcare system. The aim of this multidisciplinary perspective is to provide an overview of pertinent issues whilst highlighting the challenges and opportunities in optimising future hospital planning, construction, design, and development in high-income (HIC) and low -and medium-income country (LMIC) settings.
(© 2025 The Author(s). The International Journal of Health Planning and Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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