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Health and Social Service Journal
|April 26, 1980
Insights
Many health centers function as
Area of Science:
- Medical Architecture
- Public Health
Background:
- Many health centers established recently function more as 'illness centers' than true 'health centers'.
- The effectiveness of health centers is a critical concern in public health and medical architecture.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the factors determining the success of health centers.
- To challenge the notion that the design or services of a health center are the primary determinants of its success.
Main Methods:
- The study, by Hazel Grayson and Dr Raymond Moss, likely involved qualitative analysis or case studies of health centers.
- Research conducted at the Medical Architecture Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London.
Main Results:
- The location of a health center is a more significant factor in its success than its intrinsic characteristics.
- This finding suggests a paradigm shift in how health center effectiveness is evaluated.
Conclusions:
- The geographical context and accessibility of a health center are paramount to its success.
- Future planning and development of health centers should prioritize location analysis.
Abstract:
It is possible to consider many of the health centres opened in the last 10 years as 'illness centres' rather than 'health centres'. But Hazel Grayson, research officer, and Dr Raymond Moss, director of the Medical Architecture Research Unit at the Polytechnic of North London, argue that it is where a health centre is, rather than what it is, that determines its success.
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