Healthcare is a major emitter of environmental pollutants that adversely affect health. Within
the healthcare community, awareness of these effects is low, and recognition of the duty to …

Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern
possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental …

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus infectious disease
2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic on 11 March, severe lockdown measures have been …

Healthcare robotics Page 1 68 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | NOVEMBER 2017 | VOL.
60 | NO. 11 review articles THE USE OF robots in healthcare represents an exciting …

Background and aim: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the global healthcare systems.
The surge in infections and sick critically ill patients has tested the resilience of healthcare …

In the ideal intensive care unit (ICU) of the future, all patients are free from delirium, a
syndrome of brain dysfunction frequently observed in critical illness and associated with …

The article describes a conceptual model proposing that aggression in psychiatric facilities
may be reduced by designing the physical environment with ten evidence-grounded stress …

In recent years, the effects of the physical environment on the healing process and well-
being have proved to be increasingly relevant for patients and their families (PF) as well as …

The updated edition of the essential guide to environmental psychology Thoroughly revised
and updated, the second edition, Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers an …

Introduction Placebo and nocebo represent complex and distinct psychoneurobiological
phenomena in which behavioural and neurophysiological modifications occur together with …