Elke MiedemaHogeschool Inholland · Built Environment
Elke Miedema
PhD
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Introduction
I focus on research and education on designing inclusive buildings for networks of health and care (health-promotive settings). This includes mainly healthcare, care homes and office typologies that have a positive (health) influences on different (vulnerable) users and the local community.
Additional affiliations
February 2020 - June 2020
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- PostDoc in Furbish Sustainable Hospitals project- (re) design of healing, healthy and health promotive hospital buildings.
August 2015 - January 2019
Position
- Master's Student
Description
- Healthcare studio aims to teach how to design for complex program, such as healthcare facilitates. We relate to EBD, future-proofing, and health promotion through lectures, study visits, and workshops.
January 2015 - July 2019
Position
- Master's Student
Description
- Supervisor of Mater Thesis (MT) projects at Chalmers School of Architecture - Healthcare graduation track.
Education
August 2015 - June 2020
September 2014 - September 2017
January 2009 - April 2012
Publications
Publications (14)
The design of healthcare buildings influences healthcare quality: hospital and ward design features can increase patient and staff satisfaction, improve treatment outcomes and reduce stress. However, due to societal changes, there is increasing attention to outpatient healthcare facilities close to the communities, such as healthcare centers (HCC)....
The built environment influences health. The Healthy Cities Movement focuses on creating healthier and more sustainable cities, including healthy urban design. This focus on health is essential in an age of climate change, urban density, and inequality where planners, developers, and communities have the responsibility to design healthy places for...
Activity-based flexible offices (AFOs) provide a variety of workspaces to meet the need for social interactions and privacy at work. This study investigates the relationship between the design characteristics of AFOs and users’ perceptions of visual and acoustic privacy and social interactions. This case study is based on post-occupancy evaluations...
Background: Previous research indicates that the physical environment of healthcare facilities plays an important role in the health, well-being, and recovery outcomes of patients. However, prior works on mental healthcare facilities have incorporated physical environment effects from general healthcare settings and patient groups, which cannot be...
This study investigated the current design circumstances of an office as well as employees’ perceptions of the office environment in relation to their perceived health, drawing on sense of coherence theory (comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness). Previous studies have related the physical office environment to employee health. Howeve...
The Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) networks, founded by the World Health Organisation, support the introduction of health promotion in healthcare. This development involves the creation of a health promoting built environment. However, few studies have explored the HPH in relation to the built environments, and it is unclear how HPH-networks inco...
This paper explores the building design of a Habilitation Center that promotes healthy lifestyles of people with diverse abilities. Habilitation care moves the focus of healthcare from a disease curing approach to lifelong health development. Studies show that the design of healthcare buildings can contribute to improving care and by extension, it...
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the literature on office design approaches (ODAs) in relation to employee health. The overall goal is to facilitate the practical use and theoretical development of design approaches to healthy offices.
Design/methodology/approach
A scoping review of 7,432 papers collected from 4 electronic databases and 5 scient...
This thesis explores perspectives on health promotion in healthcare settings from a building design perspective, i.e., health-promotive building design (HPBD). The results may contribute to discussions of the role of healthcare building design to support health promotion in healthcare (HPH) and thereby contribute to the development of healthier and...
Cities have long been subject to urban containment policies against urban sprawl. Climate change concerns have recently added to the imperative to densify urban space. Urban compaction is often pursued through the creation of ‘exemplar’ urban developments that superficially implement ‘best practice’ ideas from elsewhere. In this paper, we abandon t...
Objective-The study examined the role and integration of the built environment in health promotion as perceived and described by representatives of Swedish health promotive healthcare organisations (HPHs). Background-A majority of Swedish healthcare organisations have implemented health promotion strategies in their plans and actions [1]. These HPH...
Objective:
This review explored different conceptualizations of health promotion in the context of, and in relation to, outpatient building design.
Background:
Today's healthcare organizations are implementing holistic healthcare approaches such as health promotion, while simultaneously increasing their outpatient services. These health promotio...
Background: Today's healthcare system is under development and reorienting and adapting to embrace a person centred and holistic perspective on health, including a focus on health promotion. This reorientation results in changes in the healthcare models, processes as well as it sets new requirements for healthcare building design. A vast majority o...
The healthcare system in Sweden is re-orienting and transforming to embrace a holistic perspective on health, which includes a focus on Health Promotion. This development has led to new ambitions and processes in healthcare and has thus changed the requirements for related building design. This explorative study, based on a content analysis of 9 se...
Questions
Question (1)
Dear network,
For my PhD thesis I am looking for literature on the distinction between built environment (object) and setting (place). Particularly literature that describes why it is problematic to used the concepts interchangeably.
As I see it, a setting refers to the combination of, and complex and dynamic interaction between, the natural, social and built environment. The built environment refers to human-designed objects in diverse scales, such as infrastructure, buildings, streets, walls and furniture. The built environment is thus part of the setting, but not the same as a setting. As an architect this is a distortion that is part of our professional knolwgde, however i would like to be able to explain this to public health discipline. So, does anyone have advise for literature that relates to this distinction, or even better problematises the lack of distinction?
