OBJECTIVE To evaluate and inform emergency supply of prescription-only medicines by community pharmacists (CPs), including how the service could form an integral component of established healthcare provision to maximise adherence. DESIGN Mixed methods. 4 phases: prospective audit of emergency supply requests for prescribed medicines (October-November 2012 and April 2013); interviews with CPs ...

A typical Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is to design the least cost routes for a vehicle fleet to supply goods from inventory to demanding customer locations. In this paper, we are interested in routing vehicles to minimize unmet demand and time delays. An important application of the presented model is to distribute medical supplies to response to large-scale emergencies, such as natural disas...

Abstract In recent years, frequent public health incidents have brought huge challenges to the economic development and emergency logistics systems of countries around world. Facing problems unfair distribution medical supplies low efficiency under major emergencies, this article systematically analyzes literature on material related in past 20 years. The is reviewed from three aspects: locatio...

We propose a framework to robust stochastic optimization model for disaster management planning; in particular, we address making integrated decisions about the distribution of relief supplies and evacuation operations. Our decision-making approach recommends the best relief distribution centers to use as storage locations and determines their optimal inventory levels. The model also incorporat...

The optimization problem of relief supplies distribution for large-scale emergencies is discussed in this paper. Under the situation that the needs for relief supplies are more numerous and urgency, the optimization goal should be minimum disaster loss instead of minimum delivery cost or shortest travel distance. By setting objective function about minimum disaster loss, scheduling model of rel...

without meeting fresh supplies, whilst the one week's " daur" is now a prominent feature of Indian Frontier warfare. When here we speak of emergency rations therefore we mean not so much the compressed food ration, which may keep a man going for a day or so, though this rightly, too, has its place in every man's haversack, as that collection of foods that an army cut oft from all fresh supplies...

In large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, quick sufficient transportation of emergency relief supplies is required. Logistics activities conducted to quickly provide appropriate aid (relief goods) people affected by disasters are known humanitarian logistics (HL), play an important role in terms saving the lives those affected. previous last-mile distribution HL, transported t...

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INTRODUCTION Epidemics of acute respiratory disease, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, and natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005, have prompted planning in hospitals that offer adult critical care to increase their capacity and equipment inventory for responding to a major demand surge. However, planning at a national, state, or local level to address the particu...