In this paper, a Markov decision process (MDP) model was established to study emergency medical material scheduling strategies for public health emergencies such as COVID-19.Within the constraints of dispatchable supplies, priority each node complicates problem deciding which hospital supplies respond to. The assumes that probability events in initial time period is line with Poisson distributi...

In this paper, a bi-objective model is proposed for designing a pre-positioning network of pharmaceutical supplies considering their limited shelf-life. The presented model aims to consider both cost efficiency and responsiveness by minimization of total cost and the maximum amount of unmet demand under uncertainties in demand and supply sides’ data. Moreover, for effective distribution of reli...

BACKGROUND The BC Harm Reduction Strategies and Services (HRSS) policy states that each health authority (HA) and their community partners will provide a full range of harm reduction (HR) services to their jurisdictions and these HR products should be available to all who need them regardless of where they live and choice of drug. Preliminary analysis revealed wide variations between and within...

1. Introduction A disaster, either natural or man-made, can occur at any time and place. In either case, it leads to an emergency situation which must be promptly and appropriately responded to. In the USA, as in many parts of the world, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and even private sector companies may cooperate and coordinate the response. Indeed, while the primary r...

We consider a facility location problem to determine the points of dispensing medicine or supplies in a large-scale emergency. For this problem we consider capacitated facilities, a distance-dependent coverage function, and demand uncertainty. We formulate a special case of the maximal covering location problem (MCLP) with a loss function, to account for the distance-sensitive demand, and chanc...

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in young athletes. Proper management of SCA in the athletic venue is critical. Preparation should include education and training, maintenance of emergency equipment and supplies, appropriate use of personnel, and the formation and implementation of an emergency action plan (EAP). The EAP should be specific to each individual athletic ven...

The novel coronavirus pandemic is a major global public health emergency, and has presented new challenges requirements for the timely response operational stability of emergency logistics that were required to address events outbreak in China. Based on problems insufficient timeliness high total system cost distribution epidemic situations, this paper takes minimum vehicle travel cost, time ea...