Malaysia 2010 - the International Academy of Design and Health

Design & Health
Malaysia 2010
Towards Achieving Better Health by Design
International Symposium and Workshop
Global Perspectives. Local Identities.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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2010
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Dr Abd Rahim Mohamad
Prof Alan Dilani
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The health status of the people of Malaysia has improved significantly since the
nation achieved its independence in 1957. Today, the country’s health system is
one of the best in the South East Asia region. Internationally recognised measures
of the quality and efficiency of a health system show that infant mortality rates
in Malaysia had fallen by 2005 to a level comparable with the USA and Western
Europe, whilst life expectancy rates have risen to 74 years.
Despite these successes, which have been underpinned by a firm political
commitment to universal healthcare coverage, the key to the effective and efficient
delivery of Malaysia’s health infrastructure objectives in the future is to build its
knowledge and understanding of the planning, design, finance, construction and
facility management process through greater exposure to the lessons learned from
comparative international health systems, and the use and application of research
and evidence.
In a globalised and increasingly interdependent world, the continuous
improvement of the quality of life and wellbeing of the citizens of Malaysia will be
founded on the recognition that a healthy population is the foundation for social
development and economic growth.
Today’s rapid movement of individuals and populations living in ever larger,
multi-cultural, urban environments, combined with the equally rapid evolution
of the knowledge society means that the world we live in today is one with few
boundaries. In the 21st Century, the health of nations is a global issue, and
Malaysia’s improving health status is dependent on recognition of its international
co-existence.
This international symposium and workshop organised by the Malaysian
Ministry of Health in partnership with the International Academy for Design &
Health will explore ideas and opportunities to transfer knowledge, exchange new
ideas and develop solutions to improve Malaysia’s health infrastructure and the
health and wellbeing of its growing population.
Dr Abd Rahim Mohamad, Planning and Development Division,
Ministry of Health, Malaysia
Prof Alan Dilani, founder and director-general,
International Academy for Design and Health
8 Weir Wynd, Billericay, Essex CM12 9QG
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Introduction
Introduction
A ‘salutogenic approach’ to health infrastructure development embedded at the core
of a preventative care strategy will help to change the focus from risk factors and the
treatment of disease to a more holistic understanding of a healthy society in Malaysia
In 1997, the World Health Organization
identified that the health “arena”, including
priority settings and frequently used spaces
such as the workplace, schools, hospitals,
correctional institutions, commercial offices,
public spaces within our towns and cities, and
indeed our homes, should be at the centre of
health promotion activities in the 21st century.
Using the environment as a strategic tool is
one of the most cost-effective and enduring
approaches to improving public health, but
it is one that requires new perspectives
that consider wellness factors to encourage
innovative design solutions.
Design objectives for enhancing human
health must facilitate an active lifestyle, enable
the successful management of physical,
psychological and emotional stress and support
mental and cognitive processing of information
by stimuli in a variety of designed environments.
Central to this cause is the development of
a scientific research base, which illustrates
and explores the relationship between
human health and the environment, and even
more vitally, creates a case for the rigorous
application of this knowledge in professional
practice.
Well-designed healthcare facilities around
the world are making a critical contribution
to the process of healing and rehabilitation.
Malaysia’s Prince Court Hospital is a privately-owned five star facility
Design excellence at the Prince Court Hospital in Kuala Lumpur
However, a broader, more holistic perspective
demonstrates that health processes are
continuously operating in all types of built and
physical environments where individuals spend
their daily lives.
International research studies demonstrate
how the quality of our public and private spaces
is closely linked to levels of health, crime,
poverty and our quality of life. The level of
design quality in the built environment is also
critical to the sustainable development of our
neighborhoods, towns and cities.
Architects and developers have a special
responsibility to ensure environmentallysupportive
design principles are to the fore in
addressing one of the keynote issues of our
time within the local cultural context. Good
design in our educational institutions also
enhances our children’s emotional, intellectual
and social development, laying the foundation
for a well-balanced and productive future
society.
The International Academy for Design
and Health believes that human health
is significantly related to the designed
environment. Our mission is to spread
awareness of this important message and its
value as a foundation for improving human
health, well-being and quality of life.
Objectives of the symposium and workshop
Design & Health Malaysia 2010 will explore global ‘salutogenic’ perspectives on the
planning, procurement, finance, design, construction and operation of health facilities
within the local context of infrastructure development in the region. The Academy will
provide the most recent knowledge by engaging some of the most highly qualified
experts in the world from USA, Canada, Scandinavia and the UK. The format of the two
day event will include a two day symposium and one day workshop, developed with the
support of the Ministry of Health.
Objectives
• To report and evaluate different international approach to design, and the latest
health theories and perspectives
• To report on case studies of healthcare buildings that are delivering real and
measurable benefits globally and its impact for the region
• To recommend actions and initiatives to improve the design quality and operational
management of the health infrastructure in the region
• To explore how to create a sustainable infrastructure that supports human health,
wellbeing and quality of life and meets the regions social, environmental and
economic goals
About the organizers
Contact:
Prof Alan Dilani
or Marc Sansom
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International Academy for Design & Health
Founded in 1997, the International Academy for Design & Health is dedicated to
the stimulation and application of research concerning the interaction between
design, health, science and culture. Providing a highly visible global forum for an
ongoing exchange of research findings among scientists, designers and industry, the
Academy works in close partnership with an international network of governments,
leading universities, health providers and commercial organisations to promote
human health, wellbeing and quality of life through environmental design. The
Academy is the organiser of the 7th Design & Health World Congress in Boston, USA,
from 6-10 July, 2011, and the publisher of World Health Design.
World Health Design
World Health Design is the leading international journal, celebrating new knowledge,
information and excellence in the field of design and health. Its mission is to:
• To report on the latest architectural projects and technologies
• To analyse trends and developments in international markets
• To comment on the political, social, economic and technological environment
• To publish the latest research findings in the field
• To be a discerning and indispensable resource and companion
World Health Design’s interdisciplinary readership includes architects, designers,
developers, scientists, clinicians, health managers, psychologists & economists.
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Programme
Programme Day 1 Monday 27th September
09.00 - 09.30 Welcome address
Dr Abd Rahim Mohamad, Director, Planning & Development Division,
Ministry of Health, Malaysia
09.30 - 09.30 An Overview of the Malaysian Health System
13.00 - 17.00 Study visit
Programme Day 2 Tuesday 28th September 2010
8.00 - 8.30 Registration
Session 1: Welcome and Introduction
8.45 - 9.45 Malaysian Healthcare System – Toward Achieving Better Health
Dr Abd Rahim Mohamad
9.45 - 10.15 Introduction to the Goals of the Symposium and Workshop
Prof Alan Dilani, director-general, International Academy for Design & Health
10.15 - 10.30 Question & Answer
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
Session 2: Health Perspectives, Theories & Application. The Salutogenic Perspective
11.00 - 11.40 Dr Ray Pentecost, USA president, American Institute of Architects.
Academy of Architecture for Health
11.40 - 12.20 Prof Alan Dilani, PhD, Sweden
International Academy for Design & Health, Sweden
12.20 - 12.40 Question & Answer
12.40 - 14.00 Lunch
Session 3: The Canadian Guide to the Hospital Planning & Design Process
14.00 - 14.40 Cliff Harvey, senior architect, Health Capital Investment Branch,
Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Ontario, Canada
14.40 - 15.20 Tye Farrow, senior partner, Farrow Partnership Architects, Toronto, Canada
15.20 - 15.30 Question & Answer
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
Session 4: The UK’s A-Z Guide to the Hospital Planning and Design Process
16.00 - 16.40 Mungo Smith, Senior Architect MAAP Architects, UK
16.40 - 17.20 Tye Farrow, senior partner, Farrow Partnership Architects,
Toronto, Canada
17.20 - 17.30 Question & Answer
17.30 Day 1 Symposium Summary and Close
Programme Day 3. Wednesday 29th September, 2010
Programme
Session 5: International Approaches to the Hospital Planning and Design Process
09.00 - 09.40 Mike Nightingale, founder, Nightingale Associates, UK
09.40 - 10.20 Mikael Paatela, Senior Architect, SWECO Paatela Architects, Finland
10.20 - 10.40 Question & Answer
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
Session 6: Models of Public Private Partnership: Lessons to Learn from International
Approaches to Planning and Financing
11.10 - 11.50 Cliff Harvey, senior architect, Health Capital Investment Branch,
Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Ontario, Canada
11.50 - 12.30 Mike Nightingale, Founder, Nightingale Associates, UK
12.30 - 12.50 Question & Answer
12.50 - 14.00 Lunch
Session 7: Combining Sustainability with Patient and Staff Wellbeing
14.00 - 14.40 Nick Boulter, senior associate, Arup, Singapore
14.40 - 15.20 Mungo Smith, director, MAAP Architects, UK
15.20 - 15.30 Question & Answer
15.30 - 15.50 Coffee break
Session 8: Global Trends in Hospital Planning and Ward Design
15.50 - 16.30 Mikael Paatela, senior architect, SWECO Paatela Architects, Finland
16.30 - 17.10 Mungo Smith, director, MAAP Architects, UK
17.10 - 17.30 Question & Answer
17.30 Day 3 Symposium Summary and Close
Programme Day 4. Thursday 30th September, 2010
9.00 - 12.00 Workshop & Discussion – Diagnosis. Identify the problem and challenges
• Problem analysis and exploration
• Discussion groups and brainstorming
• Small group work and presentation
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 Workshop & Discussion – Creating a Vision: A strategy for the local context
• Developing a vision and mission statement
• Identifying values, strategies, goals and action plans
• Small group work and presentation
16.00 - 17.00 Conclusion of the Program
Ministry of Health and Public Works Department, Malaysia
International Academy for Design & Health
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Programme
Speaker profiles
Speaker profiles
Professor Alan Dilani
Founder and general director, International Academy for
Design & Health
Professor Alan Dilani is a founder and general director of the International Academy
for Design and Health (IADH). He is co-founder of the journal World Health Design.
Dr Dilani has been engaged worldwide in several universities in the field of Design
and Health developing psychosocially supportive design programs, both in medical
and design institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Facility Design from the Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm and a Masters of Architecture in Environmental
Design from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. His research at the Karolinska Institute,
Medical University, developed a multidisciplinary research approach, leads to
the new definition of design that not only fosters functional efficiency, but also
improves health processes. He has designed all types of healthcare facilities and
has been used as advisor for several ministries of health around the world. He
lectures worldwide and is the author of numerous articles and books in the field of
Design and Health.
Mike Nightingale
Founder, Nightingale Associates
For three and a half decades, Mike Nightingale has dedicated his career to
elevating the design of healthcare buildings to new levels of excellence. His 36
years of experience have seen him spearhead new design approaches, promote
the importance of healthcare design and create guidance documents for the NHS.
Following his qualification at the Oxford School of Architecture, Mike’s first job saw
him working on Cirencester Community Hospital, for the Oxford Hospital Board,
beginning a lifetime of work in healthcare design. After joining Percy Thomas as
project architect for Colchester DGH, Mike pioneered several new design approaches
and went on to lead a 40 person team creating a health masterplan for Oman,
leading to the designing of three new hospitals including the Royal Hospital. In 1989
Mike founded Nightingale Associates to enable him to push the design of health
buildings to ever greater heights. In 18 years the practice has grown from two people
based in Oxford, to 300 staff working across 12 offices in the UK and South Africa on
some of the biggest healthcare projects ever undertaken.
Dr Ray Pentecost III, DrPH, FAIA, FACHA, LEED AP
President, American Institute of Architects. Academy
of Architecture for Health
Dr Ray Pentecost is an experienced healthcare professional, a licensed architect
and fellow in the American Institute of Architects. He is board certified in the
healthcare architecture specialty and a fellow in the American College of
Healthcare Architects. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional. Ray is currently
the director of healthcare architecture for Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering,
of Norfolk, Virginia. In 2009, he served as the national President of the American
Institute of Architects - Academy of Architecture of Health, and for 2010 he is again
serving as the national president of that organization. Ray is interested in research
in the modern architectural practice. He recently authored the chapter entitled
“The Practitioner as Researcher” for the 2009 book from Wiley & Sons entitled
Evidence-Based Design for Multiple Building Types, by Hamilton and Watkins,
and co-authored with Quinn, Fisher and Hughes the chapter entitled ‘Healthy
Healthcare Design’ in the 2009 NIOSH DHHS publication entitled State of the
Sector: Healthcare and Social Assistance, Identification of Research Opportunities
for the Next Decade of NORA.
Mungo Smith
Director, MAAP Architects
With international experience as a specialist consultant in the planning and design
of healthcare buildings, Mungo has 30 years of experience in medical architecture.
In the 1980’s he was project architect for the pioneering Lambeth Community Care
Centre in the UK with Edward Cullinan Architects. After a period in teaching, he
then moved to become head of design at the Medical Architecture Research Unit
(MARU) at the Polytechnic of North London, where he was responsible for all design
and research projects. In 1991, Mungo became a founding director of MAAP. As
design lead within the practice his primary responsibility is to improve the quality
of knowledge, design effectiveness and architectural excellence across all projects.
Whilst he continues to be actively involved in research through consultancy with
the Department of Health, and is a member of their Design Review Panel for major
capital projects, he is also regularly invited to speak on the design of healthcare
environments in the UK, Europe and Australasia at conferences and seminars.
Recently, he has been involved in developing the reference design for the New
Royal Adelaide Hospital and the latest masterplan for the Sunshine Coast University
Hospital. MAAP are also in a team designing new acute mental health facilities in
South Australia.
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Speaker profiles
Speaker profiles
Mikael Paatela
Architect and Managing Director, Sweco Paatela Architects, Finland
Mikael Paatela has over 30 years of experience as an architect in the design of
hospitals, health centres and facilities for elderly care both in Finland and abroad.
Having worked until 2007 as the chief design architect and managing director of
Paatela-Paatela Architects, a firm specialising in hospital and healthcare design
for over 80 years, he is now the chief architect and managing director of Sweco
Paatela Architects. Additionally he works as the healthcare architecture advisor
for Sweco Architects Ab, a Swedish architectural firm with over 400 employees. He
has designed several university hospitals, both new buildings and renovations and
elderly care facilities for public and private clients. He has also designed hospitals
and other health and elderly care projects overseas in Russia, China, Turkmenistan,
Armenia, Somalia, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Vanuatu and Japan. He has also given
lectures in several international seminars and worked as a consultant for the
Ministry of Health, China and the World Health Organization WHO.
Nick Boulter BSc FIOA
Senior Associate, Arup, Singapore
Nick Boulter is an acoustic consultant with Arup. He joined the firm in 1987 to run
the Hong Kong office and has since worked extensively in the UK and Europe and
he now leads a large team of acoustic specialists based in Singapore.
He is responsible for a wide range of acoustic design projects, including many
healthcare buildings, education facilities and performing arts venues. Nick has
a particular interest in the acoustic conditions in healthcare premises and the
contribution this can make to wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors.
Nick has acted as project manager and project director for many key healthcare
projects in Arup. This has included a leading role in major hospital developments
at Derby, Mansfield, Coventry, Walsall, Scarborough, Knowsley,Whiston, Broomfield
and Walsall in the UK. These projects required an assessment of noise from traffic,
rail and helicopters along with a detailed advice on partition sound insulation and
privacy issues, room acoustics control, services noise and vibration control for
comfort and for the protection of vibration-sensitive diagnostic equipment.
Nick had a leading role in reviewing the UK government guidance on Acoustics
in Healthcare and was one of the authors of the recently issued HTM 08-01.
Cliff Harvey
Senior Architect, Health Capital Investment Branch, Ministry of
Health and Long Term Care, Ontario, Canada
Cliff Harvey is an architect with a specialization in operational planning, design,
and construction of health care facilities. A graduate of the University of Toronto in
architecture and Ottawa’s Carleton University in architectural history, Cliff has been
involved in the industry for over 20 years, of which the last seven years has been
as the Architect for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. In this role,
Cliff has been responsible for advising the Ministry on planning and design issues,
establishing planning and design guidelines and overseeing the review of over
1,500 technical submissions to the Ministry. Building on his studies in architectural
history, Cliff has applied research and analysis of past trends in healthcare
architecture to the development of planning and design guidance documents to
address healthcare issues such as: flexibility and adaptability for future service
needs; issues of the ageing workforce, and the introduction of operational efficiency
and effectiveness by design. Cliff is an active member of the architectural profession
and healthcare design industry, as a past Ontario Association of Architects (OAA)
councillor for the City of Toronto and past chair of the Toronto Society of Architects
(TSA). He is a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), an
associate of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the American Society
of Healthcare Engineers (ASHE), the Canadian Healthcare Engineer Society (CHES)
and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).
Tye Farrow MArch, OAA, MRAIC
Farrow Partnership Architects, Canada
Tye Farrow is a senior partner at Farrow Partnership Architects. His work is viewed
internationally as setting a new standard in healthcare design. Farrow received the
first annual Architect Award from the International Academy for Design and Health
for making “a significant contribution to health and humanity”. He also received
the Healthcare Facilities Symposium Individual Architect Award in the US and the
Best International Design award from the Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment-endorsed Building Better Healthcare Awards in the UK. Farrow holds a
Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University.
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Design and Health
7th World Congress & Exhibition
An international forum for continuous dialogue between researchers and practitioners
Boston, 6-10th July 2011
Congress Themes presentations:
• The economic impact of health
promotion by design
• The role of the built environment in
promoting healthy living
• Evidence-based design: Defining evidence
and its relationship to research
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2010
• Healthcare cost containment:
The role of design
• Technology convergence: The intersection
between medical technology, nanotechnology
and healthcare architecture
• Places and spaces for healing
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