TY - JOUR JF - jorar JO - jorar VL - 11 IS - 4 PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/8/01 TI - Evaluation of the Level of Safety and Disaster Preparedness of Comprehensive Healthcare Centers in Babol, Iran TT - Evaluation of the Level of Safety and Disaster Preparedness of Comprehensive Healthcare Centers in Babol, Iran N2 - INTRODUCTION: Comprehensive healthcare centers should be able to provide primary healthcare services during disasters; therefore, it is necessary to assess their safety and preparedness to ensure that they can have acceptable functionality in critical situations. In this regard, the present study aimed to evaluate the level of safety and disaster preparedness of comprehensive healthcare centers in Babol, Iran. METHODS: The present descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 to investigate the safety level and disaster preparedness of 232 comprehensive healthcare centers in Babol, using observation and checklists. The used checklist consisted of three parts, namely functional, structural, and non-structural safety assessment. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. FINDINGS: Based on the data analysis, the studied centers were more prone to weather hazards than other types of disasters. Moreover, the evaluation of the different aspects of the functionality of the centers showed that the best functionality was observed in firefighting, provision of the environmental health services, organization and structure, and provision of infectious disease management services, in that order. The non-structural safety obtained the highest average score (37.49) while the scores of functional and structural safety were 21.76 and 9.27, respectively. CONCLUSION: Based on the results, all the studied comprehensive healthcare centers had a moderate level of structure and functional safety, while no center had a completely desirable level. Therefore, it is recommended to develop proper plans and monitor the comprehensive healthcare centers to eliminate their defects and improve the level of their safety. SP - 287 EP - 293 AU - Aghalari, Zahra AU - Khodadadi, Ali AU - Ashrafian Amiri, Hasan AU - Jafarian, Somayeh AD - Health Services Management, B.A. in Environmental Health Engineering, Health Department, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran KW - Comprehensive Healthcare Centers KW - Disasters KW - Preparedness KW - Safety. UR - http://jorar.ir/article-1-515-en.html DO - 10.52547/jorar.11.4.287 ER -