...Mehrdad Rahmani; Aynaz Lotfata; Sarasadat Khoshnevis; Komar Javanmardi; Mehmet Emin Akdogan 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...

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