Healthy Design

Healthy Design
“The time Is now for greening the Proclamation for Change and transforming health care into an environmentally sustainable endeavor that heals”.This is the concept that the “Greening the 'Proclamation for Change'” article is trying to promote. The Proclamation for Change is an idea created in 2007 that focused on addressing inefficiencies in healthcare unit design, work flow, and technology.   Applying this concept to all areas of the healthcare field would help streamline health care facilities and their staff which would ultimately make them more efficient and productive. Laura Anderko, Stephanie Chalupka, and Whitney Gray, the authors of this article, are pushing for an environmentally sustainable aspect to be incorporated into the Proclamation for Change. They believe that “providers and institutions must take to heart the broader values of social responsibility and environmental health, conservation, and sustainability” and by doing that, become aware of the environmental influences that can negatively affect the health of patients and employees, communities, and the environment itself. This is the reason that there needs to be an eco-minded aspect to be incorporated into the Proclamation for Change. The article introduces a valid overall argument that I agree with. The authors were successfully convincing in promoting the concept of Greening the Proclamation for Change due to their effective use of the ethos mode of persuasion, and their easy to follow layout coupled with strong, abundant support for their arguments.
Lets look at the first reason this article is effectively convincing and that is due to use of the   ethos means of persuasion.
The modes of persuasion are writing proofs or appeals that help the writer persuade his or her audience. It is split up into three categories. Ethos is associated with credibility, Pathos with emotion, and logos with logic or reason. The “Greening the 'Proclamation for Change'” article does a good...