COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HOSPITAL BIRTH CENTERS IN AND OUTSIDE HOSPITAL BUILDING

This research compares two types of hospital birth centers; one is in hospital building and outside those buildings.1)Architectural demand by midwives who had been involved in giving birth independently from medical doctors generated hospital birth center in hospital building followed by the one outside the building. 2)Midwives try to make different atmosphere from hospital’s one even they architecturally and functionally relate each other. 3)The equipments of the delivery room are decided by the presence of medical intervention besides the intention of midwives. 4)The cooperation between the birth center outside hospital building and its related hospital is different depending on their distance etc. 5)Doctors assists are important to establish hospital birth center. 6)All the 3 hospital birth centers also serve child care.