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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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Two health centres, two ideologies

Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.

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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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How architecture builds a profession of stress

Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.

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  • Health facility action plan in the event of acute flaccid paralysis: treating polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • A contented family of five illustrating a calendar for 2001: family planning in Uganda. Colour lithograph by DISH, 2001.
  • A yellow star bearing a male and female health worker: The Yellow Star care programme in Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 2001.
  • A contented family of five illustrating a calendar for 2001: family planning in Uganda. Colour lithograph by DISH, 2001.
  • Smiling families: family planning in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Delivery of Improved Services for Health II, 2001.
  • A contented family of five sitting outside their house: family planning in Uganda. Colour lithograph by DISH, 2001.
  • A contented family of five sitting outside their house: family planning in Uganda. Colour lithograph by DISH, 2001.
  • A woman accosts another at a water collecting point before a crowd of onlookers waiting to fill their buckets: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health Ghana, ca. 2000.
  • Nepal; Kunde hospital in the Khumbu, 1986
  • Flesh colored background with blood running down from the top left corner: child birth safety in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Delivery of Improved Services for Health II, 2001.
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