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E Martino. 2005. Three dancing dwarves.. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03345536
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BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: The underlying assumption was that the aesthetics of the hospital surroundings are often neglected. AIMS: This article is the first part of a larger study into the aesthetics of general hospitals. The aim of the study is to throw light on the influence of aesthetics on the health and well-being of patients and the professional personnel, and to examine how aesthetic considerations are dealt with. We present a survey of how the aesthetic dimension is planned and it is considered important in the strategic plans of Norwegian general hospitals. METHODS: Data were sampled by analyzing the strategic plans of somatic hospitals. Sixty-four of 86 hospitals responded (74%). Concepts were categorized in a matrix of 11 main categories, each with subcategories. The method was quantitative, in that the analyzed material was amenable to counting. RESULTS: Very few concrete guidelines or directions for the aesthetic dimension have been included in written documents. This indicates that the aesthetic area is a neglected field in the directions for the daily management of hospitals. CONCLUSIONS: The research available today on the contribution of environmental aesthetics to health, rehabilitation, and well-being suggests that it is important to have concrete guidelines recorded in strategic plans. This field concerns the maintenance of high quality in the caring professions.
The salubrious effects of participation in and exposure to the arts are well documented. This paper describes the development of a unique arts centre established in a disadvantaged urban school setting as part of a larger community-based health promotion research project. The discussion highlights how community-based arts programming may impact health not only through positive effects on "upstream" non-medical health determinants, particularly aspects of social support, but also through its ability to facilitate the more traditional health-promotion initiatives of the larger parent project. Also discussed is this centre's potential to act as a catalyst to achieve the overarching project goal of enhanced community health by building constitutive capacity around positive aspects of the community, rather than focusing on capacity only as an instrumental resource to solve social or health problems. Greater incorporation of the arts within health-promotion projects offers potential to enhance both health promotion practice and outcomes.
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