ARCHITECTURE AND ITS ROLE IN THE LIGHT OF THE PNH: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

Introduction: Through the constitution of public policies focused on social security, humanization and health practices gain strength, giving rise to the National Humanization Policy (PNH). The space intended for health care is no longer just the place to be treated, but the place where it will be cared for in a more integral way, where the environment reveals itself as an intrinsic factor in the health-disease process, requiring attention to the hospital architecture. Objective: To analyze the parameters and strategies of the environment, as a device for the humanization of spaces and relationships, established by the National Policy of Humanization contemplated in hospital environments. Method: This is an integrative review whose proposition was to carry out a bibliographic mapping using descriptors inserted in the Decs Mesh. Results and Discussion: The 22 related studies presented evidence of the importance of humanizing hospital environments and how the NHP, from the perspective of the environment, was implemented and put into effect in Brazilian hospital environments. Pointing out the significant interference of the environment and its reliability in the comfort and recovery of hospitalized patients. Conclusion: It can be seen that the advances in the hospital infrastructure linked to the PNH are few, given the years of its implementation, evidencing failures and deficiencies in the process of evolution of architecture to the health-disease process.