Mission

To provide practical, evidence based (where appropriate) written materials about construction, design and renovation in health care facilities

Goals

a) To make the following differentiated recommendations for low and high income countries:  

• Basic: even with severely limited resources, “this is what you should do as a minimum”
• Standard: “this is what you should aim for in less wealthy countries”
• Ideal: “if you have the resources, this is what you could do”

b) To find experts and define good guidelines

Objectives

To prepare draft documents of 2-10 pages each and publishing the final papers on the IFIC website and/or in the IFIC journal and/or in other journals.

Functions/Activities

The IFIC Special Interest Group (SIG) “Design, construction and renovation” had its first meeting during the IFIC congress in Budapest in October 2007.

The SIG meets once a year during the IFIC congress. Most of work and discussion is done by e-mail contacts. Each draft is sent to all SIG members and each member can take part in preparing and discussing drafts. The final version of a paper is prepared by the author of the first draft and the chair of the SIG; acceptance by the board of IFIC is needed before publication.
Evidence based proposals are intended. But it is the explicite goal of the SIG to make practical, short and fast to read papers.
Another goal is to make differentiated recommendations for low and high income countries.

Everybody who is interested in this field of work is invited to become a member of the SIG. Please contact the actual chair Walter Popp: walter.popp@uk-essen.de
At the moment (summer 2008) the SIG has around 20 members from all over the world.

The following drafts are intended or in preparation:

Everyone is invited to give comments to SIG papers and give proposals for improvements or new topics. Please contact the actual chair Walter Popp: walter.popp@uk-essen.de

Comments and suggestions on draft publications are welcome and should be sent to walter.popp@uk-essen.de