[Environment and energy in hospitals: assessment of usage and impact of Health Facilities in the Lombardy Region]

Ann Ig. 2010 Nov-Dec;22(6):563-73.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The research moves from the current global and local context and from shared development strategies. From the observation and the analysis of contemporary environmental and energy issues and redefined directions of growth of human activity, it is addressing the question of environmental sustainability and energy conservation of building hospital systems. The work has developed a field survey relating the specific topic of energy saving and efficiency of the Park Hospital in the Italian Lombardy Region. This has been articulated in a diagnosis of technology and efficiency of regional hospitals, implemented through a census, and in a subsequent identification of interventional cases, in order to show its economic, environmental and health performance of the energy efficiency consumption and the environmentally sound.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Conservation of Natural Resources*
  • Efficiency, Organizational
  • Energy-Generating Resources
  • Environmental Monitoring* / methods
  • Environmental Pollution / prevention & control*
  • Health Facilities / standards*
  • Hospitals / standards
  • Humans
  • Italy