Arquitetura e humanização do ambiente hospitalar: uma análise do Hospital Municipal Djalma Marques

Abstract

The present work has the objective to analyze the contribution of architecture to a humanization of the hospital environment, highlighting as clinical and surgical wards of Hospital Djalma Marques - “Socorrão I”, at São Luís - Maranhão. It is an exploratory research with quantitative and qualitative approaches. In the literature search was sought to understand the evolution of hospitals over the time, the applicable norms, the importance of humanization, the influence of architecture, the function of the hospital architect, beside the attributes and the psychoneuroimmunology. In the field work conducted in the wards, it was intended to verify aspects of humanization considering in the analysis the perceptions and opinions of the three types of users: patient, companions and employees. At the end, suggestions were made for the humanization of the places visited, in order to collaborate in the development of hospitalized projects, besides complying with technical requirements, also meet the needs of those who experience the environment of this type of building.