Resilience assessment of health-care facilities within urban context: learning from a non-profit hospital in Tehran, Iran
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
ISSN: 1759-5908
Article publication date: 5 July 2022
Issue publication date: 10 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Tehran’s health-care system is growing, yet it lacks emergency planning procedures. The premise of this study is that the urban environment around a hospital is just as robust as the hospital itself. This study aims to look at hospital resilience in an urban setting to see where it may be improved to keep the hospital operational during a disaster.
Design/methodology/approach
The urban resilience (UR) of Amir-Alam Hospital was analyzed in this study using a customized version of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s City Resilience Profiling Tool. The 34 indications were broken down into five categories.
Findings
The result revealed that the hospital’s UR score was 51.75 out of 100, indicating medium resilience. The results of this study enable the decision-makers to determine what measures they may take to improve the hospital’s resilience in terms of its surrounding urban context.
Originality/value
The originality of this research is based on the surrounding urban environment’s resilience as an integral part of hospital resilience.
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Acknowledgements
Conflict of interest: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
This paper is based on a research project that was supported by UN HABITAT in 2019, funded by the Government of Japan and fulfilled by VestA Abadgeran Bimarz Engineering Consultancy Ltd, whose areas of expertise are structural design and city resilience. This paper is based on the preprint titled “Resilience Assessment of healthcare facilities within urban context: Learning from a non-profit hospital in Tehran, Iran” posted on MedRxiv in September 2021.
Citation
Rahmani, M., Lotfata, A., Khoshnevis, S., Javanmardi, K. and Akdogan, M.E. (2023), "Resilience assessment of health-care facilities within urban context: learning from a non-profit hospital in Tehran, Iran", International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 669-699. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-11-2021-0151
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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