Locating Health and Treatment Centers (Hospitals) with a Passive Defense Approach; Case Study: Babil City

Abstract

The application of the principles and requirements of passive defense in urban spaces and facilities has attracted special attention in the country. Health care service centers are one of the centers that are directly involved in ensuring the health of the individual and society. Since the duty of the hospital is to respond to its users and to treat them, and this response should be as complete and useful as possible, it is believed that the proper assistance, facilitating the access of patients to treatment places depends on the correct location of the hospital and quick and timely access to these centers is very important and necessary during crises. In most cities, the lack of appropriate allocation of space and optimal placement of medical centers (hospitals) and the number of effective factors in the location of these centers has led to an increasing number of urban and citizen problems. This research seeks to optimally distribute the use of medical services in the city of Babol by observing the rules of passive defense. In this research, spatial data was prepared from digital and linear maps, and descriptive data was collected using statistics and field research and connected to the database. Then, for each of the influencing factors in the location of treatment centers (hospitals), related layers were prepared and the privacy of users was specified in each layer; the results of the integration of the information layers, the lands of the desired area for choosing the right place for healthcare use were divided into five categories: very excellent, excellent, good, average and poor, and finally the very excellent and excellent category lands for the construction of health-treatment centers were determined.