Search results for: HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS, SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE, SENIOR CARE, NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS, ARCHITECTURE

• Interdisciplinary Design Teams in Poland - Architecture as a Tool for Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections

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  • R. Janowicz

  - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing - Year 2019

  Hospital-acquired infections pose a problem, which directly affects the safe usage of healthcare facilities. On a global scale, the level of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) is estimated to affect 5–15% of those hospitalised. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, on an annual basis, procedures preventing hospital-acquired infections consume 80 billion dollars [1]. In this context, it becomes important to create...

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• Aleksandra Parteka dr hab. inż.

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  Katedra Ekonomii

  About me: I am an associate professor and head of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology (GdanskTech, Poland).  I got my MSc degree in Economics from Gdansk University of Technology (2003) and Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche (2005), as well as MA degree in Contemporary European Studies from Sussex University (2006, with distinction).  I received my PhD in Economics...

• Ideas of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) in architectural education

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  • A. Taraszkiewicz
  • K. Taraszkiewicz

  - World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education - Year 2024

  The New European Bauhaus (NEB) is an interdisciplinary project initiated by the European Commission in 2020 [1], based on three values: sustainability, beauty and community (social inclusion). Its aim is to support the European Green Deal programme [2] by accelerating the transformation of various economic sectors, including construction, to improve the quality of people’s lives and protect the natural environment. Even though...

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• REDUCING HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS WITH THE USE OF ARCHITECTURAL MEASURES

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  • R. Janowicz

  - Year 2024

  Healthcare facilities are architectural objects designed under the strong influence of sanitary and hygienic requirements and guidelines of medical technology. During the process of planning future healthcare facilities and modernising already existing units, the need to provide safety to all their users comes as a significant aspect. In medical objects, it depends on the standard factors observed in public utility buildings. The...

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• Hospital chaplains facing the pandemic. A qualitative study

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  • J. Domaradzki

  - Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy - Year 2023

  The article explores hospital chaplains perspective on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the provision of spiritual care in Poland. Semi-structured interviews with sixteen hospital chaplains providing spiritual care in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic were performed. Six main themes emerged during the interviews: chaplains' experience of the pandemic, chaplaincy during the outbreak, patients' needs, health professionals...

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• Sustainability

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• EFFICIENCY OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES - THE DEA NETWORK APPROACH

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  • J. Kujawska

  - Metody Ilościowe w Badaniach Ekonomicznych - Year 2018

  Healthcare systems in Europe are constantly undergoing reforms which adapt them to social, economic and political requirements. The aim of this article is to examine the efficiency of healthcare systems in 30 European countries in 2014. The Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA) model was used. The efficiency of the countries’ overall health systems and their two main components were examined: the public health system and the...

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• THE ARCHITECTURE OF DAYLIGHT IN THE DISCOURSE ABOUT THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY

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  • M. Rogińska-Niesłuchowska

  - Year 2017

  The need to create ecological and energy efficient architecture is evident today. In the contemporary discourse on architecture more and more attention is dedicated to the aesthetics that expresses the idea of sustainability. The article is a voice in this debate, concentrating on the architecture that features daylight. Solar light comes from the natural environment and brings some substantial benefits for the architectural space,...

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• Lucyna Nyka prof. dr hab. inż. arch.

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  Gdańsk University of Technology, Department of Urban Architecture and Waterscapes

  Lucyna Nyka (Ph.D., D.Sc., Prof.) is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology, in 2008-2016 a Vice-Dean for Research, and since 2016 – Dean of the Faculty of Architecture.    Her research interests focus on issues concerning water-related architecture and urban landscapes. She is the author and co-author of many projects focused on urban renewal. She was an author of the EU-founded (Audiovisual...

• Challenges and Opportunities of the Sustainability in Healthcare

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  • K. Miszczyńska

  - Year 2020

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