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Evaluation of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Ability of Medical Buildings in Harbin, China
Tian Wang1, Shanshan Zhang1, Yue Wu1
1Key Laboratory of Cold Region Urban and Rural Human Settlement Environment Science and Technology, 504858School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Insights
Harbin
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Medical Architecture
- Infectious Disease Control
Background:
- China implemented strict COVID-19 measures, but medical systems need improvement for infectious disease control.
- The existing medical building system in Harbin requires evaluation for its effectiveness against sudden infectious diseases.
Purpose of the Study:
- To establish an evaluation model for the medical building system's capacity to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases in Harbin.
- To assess the current capabilities of Harbin's medical building system in infectious disease prevention and control.
Main Methods:
- Expert group methodology was employed to select evaluation indicators.
- Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation was utilized to construct the evaluation model, including index sets and weighting.
- The model was refined and applied to evaluate Harbin's medical building system.
Main Results:
- Harbin's medical building system exhibits an unbalanced capacity for preventing sudden infections.
- Key areas needing improvement include response monitoring and forecasting terminals.
- The construction of emergency centers shows high indicators, suggesting a potential imbalance.
Conclusions:
- An effective evaluation model for medical building systems in infectious disease prevention was developed.
- This model provides a practical method for assessing infectious disease control capabilities in urban medical infrastructures.
- The study bridges theoretical research in medical architecture with practical medical building design for enhanced public health preparedness.
Objective:
Entrusted by the Harbin Municipal Government, evaluation medical building system for prevention and control of sudden infectious diseases in the city has been established.
Background:
China, as a country that found the COVID-19 earlier, has taken strict control measures. However, as the medical building system is not perfect enough to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases.
Method:
First, expert group methodology was used and evaluation index of ability of prevention and control of sudden infectious diseases in medical building system was selected; then fuzzy comprehensive evaluation was adopted to establish index set and to set weight and medical building system evaluation model for prevention and control of sudden infectious diseases was constructed; finally, it's to modify the indicators and weights in the evaluation set and to make an evaluation of the ability of Harbin medical building system to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases in accordance with the current management mode of system.
Results:
The medical building system in Harbin is significantly unbalanced in its ability to prevent sudden infections where there are low indicators for response monitoring and forecasting terminals, there are high indicators for the construction of emergency center.
Conclusions:
The evaluation model of the ability of medical building system to prevent and control sudden infectious diseases was constructed. The model is adopted to make practical evaluation of infectious disease prevention and control ability in Harbin and to form the evaluation method of the direct connection between the theoretical research of medical architecture and medical building design.
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