20.500.12556/DKUM-92038 Siting of healthcare care facilities based on the purpose of their operation, demographic changes, environmental characteristics, and the impact on public health A contemporary approach to the spatial design of healthcare care facilities faces numerous challenges at the crossroads of multidisciplinary topics of architecture and urbanism, healthcare, security, and organisational sciences. Due to the unique combination of uses, users and architectural expression, they are defined as urban nodes. With their inclusion, architects facilitate a better placing of healthcare facilities, indirectly improving human health. The purpose of the article is to seek guidelines for the siting of healthcare facilities to provide suitable and equal healthcare to different social structures, and for the optimal and fair spatial distribution of healthcare services. The descriptive method was used to review literature on the siting of healthcare facilities based on the purpose of their operation, demographic changes, environmental characteristics, and the impact on public health. This method was selected as it facilitates data acquisition from various sources and a comprehensive understanding of the topic discussed. The results of the research show how important the impact of the healthcare care facilities siting on human health and the wider social significance of the topic discussed is. The findings may provide guidelines and proposals for future spatial decisions. healthcare facility location healthcare facility location modelling hospital geographic location healthcare facility location planning healthcare facility spatial plannin zdravstveni zavodi bolnišnice lokacije planiranje true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci © 2021 by the authors Članek v reviji 2025-03-13 08:19:28 2025-03-13 08:19:28 2025-03-14 03:27:40 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 16 str. iss. 1, art. 379 Vol. 12 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2021-12-01 2021-12-29 2021-12-31 614 91931651 10.3390/app12010379 2076-3417 applsci-12-00379.pdf applsci-12-00379.pdf 1 85D8A12F6F560A06E4718DA6E207C815 e999db7d5d4a618f1b794e8a9d5200c53acd57765409cfc2b467654659626038 1d7386ab-ffdc-11ef-82d0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=189217 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/1/379 1 8118a9cb-ffdb-11ef-82d0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=189216 Fakulteta za gradbeništvo, prometno inženirstvo in arhitekturo 0 0 0