Facility location and multi-modality mass dispensing strategies and emergency response for biodefence and infectious disease outbreaks

Lee, Eva K.; Smalley, Hannah K.; Zhang, Yang; Pietz, Ferdinand; Benecke, Bernard

doi:10.1504/ijram.2009.025925

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“…Iakovou et al (1997) present the strategic and tactical decisions involved in locating the clean-up equipment for oil spill disaster. Other authors deal with the locationallocation of medical services in response to emergencies with a covering objective, forcing a minimum satisfaction of demand such as (Jia et al 2007a;Jia et al 2007b), and Lee et al 2009b).…”

Section: Location and Network Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relief distribution networks: a systematic review

2014

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In the last 20 years, Emergency Management has received increasing attention from the scientific community. Meanwhile, the study of relief distribution networks has become one of the most popular topics within the Emergency Management field. In fact, the number and variety of contributions devoted to the design or the management of relief distribution networks has exploded in the recent years, motivating the need for a structured and systematic analysis of the works on this specific topic. To this end, this paper presents a systematic review of contributions on relief distribution networks in response to disasters. Through a systematic and scientific methodology, it gathers and consolidates the published research works in a transparent and objective way. It pursues three goals. First, to conduct an up-to-date survey of the research in relief distribution networks focusing on the logistics aspects of the problem, which despite the number of previous reviews has been overlooked in the past. Second, to highlight the trends and the most promising challenges in the modeling and resolution approaches and, finally, to identify future research perspectives that need to be explored.

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Section: Location and Network Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relief distribution networks: a systematic review

2014

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“…Another area of concern to public health is the average or maximum response time of a facility location model to contain disease outbreaks. In such circumstances, opening new temporary facilities to quickly distribute (vaccines, drugs, and therapeutics) to the affected population [34,35] is an effective outbreak containment strategy. The economic trade-off is between the number of facilities to open and the facility capacity versus the distance traveled and its impact on outbreak containment.…”

Section: Facility Location Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The economic trade-off is between the number of facilities to open and the facility capacity versus the distance traveled and its impact on outbreak containment. OR models [35] determine how many new facilities should be opened and where and also rules on the assignment of individuals to the facilities. Heier et al [36] consider the more general problem of decentralized facility assignment in such a scenario when the users pick the facility themselves and establish the cost of ''anarchy'' in such a system.…”

Section: Facility Location Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving Public Health In Developing Countries Through Operations Research

Yadav

2011

Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science

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Across the developing world, thousands of people many of them children die each day from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. Many of these conditions are preventable and treatable through well known public health interventions. Operations research (OR) can be a key tool to allocate the scarce resources to cost‐effective interventions that can alleviate the health status in developing countries. This article provides an introduction to the application of OR to public health problems in developing countries for OR/MS practitioners, advanced undergraduate students in OR/MS and graduate researchers initiating work in this field. It explains commonly used public health metrics such as quality‐adjusted life year (QALY), disability‐adjusted life year (DALY), and Gini coefficient. Simple models to understand disease transmission along with a few illustrative applications of OR to solve public health problems are presented.

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“…The maximal-covering location model in Balcik and Beamon (2008) incorporates inventory decisions in response to a sudden-onset disaster by determining the number and location of distribution centers and the quantity of inventory at each center. Lee et al (2009) use a capacitated facility location model to determine points of dispensing for the Atlanta metropolitan area. The model considers population densities, maximum travel distance, available private and public facilities, and staff.…”

Section: Related Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of the earlier research develops location models with some type of equity measure as a primary goal; for example, they minimize the maximum distance between any individual and the facilities for distribution of emergency supplies, such as in the problem of dispensing vaccines that Lee et al (2009) discuss. The existing research differs from our study in both scope and objectives: We seek to locate and resource triage facilities to optimize casualty throughput.…”

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confidence: 99%

Casualty Collection Points Optimization: A Study for the District of Columbia

2015

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A casualty collection point (CCP) is a single, predetermined location that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide decontamination (if required), emergency medical assessment, treatment, and, where necessary, onward transportation of victims of a mass casualty incident. Emergency planners in the District of Columbia have recognized the desirability of developing a tool to assist planners in selecting CCPs within the affected area following a major incident. We develop a CCP optimization model (CCPOM) that provides planners and policymakers with strategic and operational insights into the complex problem of selecting optimal CCP locations to maximize casualty throughput for a range of incident parameters. Even more relevant, the CCPOM determines the utilization of personnel, decontamination units, and ambulances, providing planners with a general structure for resource allocation and signaling shortfalls that may lead to bottlenecks in casualty processing at the CCPs. District planners found many nonintuitive CCPOM results to be significant to their planning, programming, and budgeting efforts, and now consider the model's categorized resource utilization to be an integral part in updating District plans for both national special security event planning and everyday events.

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Facility location and multi-modality mass dispensing strategies and emergency response for biodefence and infectious disease outbreaks

Cited by 44 publications

References 42 publications

Relief distribution networks: a systematic review

Relief distribution networks: a systematic review

Improving Public Health In Developing Countries Through Operations Research

Casualty Collection Points Optimization: A Study for the District of Columbia

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