Çevre dostu hastaneler: hastaneden yeşil hastaneye

Abstract

Be able to control costs, meet the growing expectations of consumers and the necessity of efficient use of resources make green hospital a current issue in health sector. The mean of green hospital concept is to produce alternatives to the use of resources, to encourage to more effective and efficient usage of energy, water and material currently used, to ensure the prevention of any kind of wastage, to perform environmentally sensible and eco-friendly building design and be environmentally friendly in the process of service provision also. The aim of this study is, to give information about the concept of green hospital, to demonstrate the applicability of the concept of green hospitals in the health sector, especially health care institutions, to examine the contribution of this concept to health institutions and the environment and to point out to the concept of green in the health sector in Turkey. For this purpose, in this study, the concept of green and green health care is defined, the importance of green for health care services is explained and what extent and how it was implemented the green hospital strategy in health sector is emphasized with the different examples from Turkey and the world. The implementation of environmentally friendly green strategies, the adoption of environmentally friendly approaches to health within the framework of social responsibility and in this respect extended employees, patient and community awareness can be suggested to both public and private hospital managers for developing and improving the sustainable systems