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Today's healthcare system is under development and reorienting and adapting to embrace a person centred and holistic perspective on health, including a focus on health promotion. This reorientation results in changes in the healthcare models, processes as well as it sets new requirements for healthcare building design. A vast majority of research has been devoted to the relation between inpatient healthcare building design and individual health, eg how our hospitals affects treatments and patient outcomes. Less attention has been paid to the relation between outpatient healthcare building design and public or population health and wellbeing, eg healthcare in the community to lessen the load on large hospitals. At the same time as the aforementioned development is happening there is a growing body of research emphasizing the importance of the built environment for public health. This …