Academic publisher SAGE will begin publishing Health Environments Research & Design (HERD), a journal that publishes research on the relationships among health and environmental design and organisational, provider, and patient outcomes.
HERD publishes evidence-based articles and research papers, opinion papers, theory papers, meta-analysis/metasynthesis, book reviews, case studies, independent post-occupancy evaluations, letters to the editors, and responses to letters/papers that come from both academic sources and applied research in practice.
HERD was one of the first journals to focus on both healthcare research and evidence-based design. Since it launched more than eight years ago, the journal has helped to bridge the gap between research and practice to guide design decisions in the field. The journal will continue to be affiliated with the Center for Health Design.
