Architectural design to improve Indigenous health outcomes

该项目旨在发展以证据为基础的知识，了解土著客户在卫生保健环境中感到的支持或压力，并为建筑设计和服务提供提出建议。许多土著人民由于害怕或不喜欢保健服务及其环境，直到得了慢性病才去求医。该项目旨在了解不同建筑规模和服务（诊所、医院、候诊室、病房等）的医疗保健建筑设计如何影响土著人民对这些环境的使用和看法，以及由此产生的获得医疗保健服务的动机。该项目开发创新和适应性强的研究方法，力求确定卫生设施的必要建筑设计变化，以便利土著人民获得卫生设施。

The project seeks to develop evidence-based knowledge on what Indigenous clients find supportive or stressful in health care settings, to formulate recommendations for architectural design and service delivery. Many Indigenous people fail to present for health care until chronically ill, due to fear or dislike of health services and their settings. This project aims to understand how design in healthcare architecture across different building scales and services (clinics, hospitals, waiting rooms, wards etc) affects Indigenous people’s use and perceptions of these environments and consequent motivation to access health care services. Developing innovative and adaptable research methods, the project seeks to identify the necessary architectural design changes for health settings to facilitate access for Indigenous people.