Healing Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on Health

By March 7, 2015Health, Research

“In recent years, design for health care environments has begun to include esthetic enhancements in an attempt to reduce stress and anxiety, increase patient satisfaction, and promote health and healing. In this paper, the authors survey the existing research on those elements of the built and natural environment most often asserted by proponents as being inherently healing or promoting health.”

Source: The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine