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Creating health and health promoting hospitals: a worthy challenge for the twenty‐first century

Trevor Hancock (Health Promotion Consultant, 28 Napier Street, Kleinburgh, Ontario, Canada)

Leadership in Health Services

ISSN: 1366-0756

Article publication date: 1 June 1999

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Abstract

States that it seems self‐evident that a hospital should be a healing environment, a healthy place to work, should not harm the health of the environment and should contribute to and be a source of health in the community, but argues that hospitals have not paid a great deal of attention to many of these issues until recently. Suggests that in recent years, a new and broader understanding of health promotion has led to a re‐examination of the ways in which hospitals can be both healthy and health‐promoting. Begins by exploring the broader concepts of health promotion that lay the foundation for the creation of healthy and health‐promoting hospitals and provides some examples of how these approaches are being applied.

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Hancock, T. (1999), "Creating health and health promoting hospitals: a worthy challenge for the twenty‐first century", Leadership in Health Services, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/13660759910266784

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