Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture

<p><em>Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture</em> is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities.</p><p>Aimed at architects and other professionals working across the disaster relief sector it provides:</p><ul> <li>An overview of the need for rapid response healthcare facilities; </li> <li>Global case studies which demonstrate real examples;</li> <li>Historical perspectives on redeployables used in past military and civilian contexts; </li> <li>Analysis of the advantages challenges and opportunities associated with offsite premanufactured healthcare facilities and their component systems for permanent installations or reuse on multiple sites; </li> <li>Planning and design considerations for transportable offsite-built healthcare architecture; </li> <li>State-of-the-art research on pop-up clinics truck-based configurations ISO container-based outpatient clinical and trauma care centres and modularized facilities for contemporary military and civilian contexts. </li> </ul><p>Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture will be an invaluable reference source for architects disaster mitigation planners design and engineering practitioners non-governmental medical aid organizations (NGOs) governmental health ministries and policy specialists across the spectrum of disciplines engaged in disaster mitigation and the provision of healthcare in medically underserved communities globally.</p>