Optimizing health service location in a highly urbanized city: Multi criteria decision making and P-Median problem models for public hospitals in Jeddah City, KSA

• Abdulkader Murad ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amurad@kau.edu.sa

  Affiliation Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9197-5062

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• Fazlay Faruque,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, UMMC, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Ammar Naji,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA

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• Alok Tiwari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA

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• Emad Qurnfulah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA

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• Mahfuzur Rahman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ashraf Dewan

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Spatial Sciences Discipline, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia

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