Healthcare commodities for emergencies in Africa: review of logistics models, suggested model and research agenda

Babatunde, Seye; Oloruntoba, Richard; Agho, Kingsley

doi:10.1108/jhlscm-09-2019-0064

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“…Thus, the statistical significance of an attribute "number of adults with age 65 years old and older in a household" denotes that households with senior people reduced their shopping frequency to minimize the risk of senior household members being infected through visits to shops during the outbreak. This finding confirms results seen in studies by Babatunde et al (2020), Breitbarth et al (2021), Sokat and Altay (2021), where humanitarian issues during the pandemic crisis suggested that the needs of vulnerable populations should be considered first.…”

Section: Emergency Supplies Purchasesupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Because of the difficulties associated with urban logistics, urban areas are highly vulnerable to people's shopping behavior changes, which cause changes in the supply chains and require new strategies to be developed (Wu and Chaipiyaphan, 2019;Chaudhuri et al, 2020;Altay and Narayanan, 2021;Thompson and Anderson, 2021). The pandemic, as is common among all crisis and disasters, affected vulnerable population groups first (Allahi et al, 2021;Babatunde et al, 2020;Breitbarth et al, 2021;Blank, 2021;Sokat and Altay, 2021). Older people, for example, had difficulty accessing their usual food supplies due to a risk of being infected during physical store visits.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Along with food products, prompt access to medical supplies became a frontline concern for people's safety during the pandemic outbreak (Babatunde et al, 2020;Blank, 2021;Malmir and Zobel, 2021). The rapid demand for face masks (Worby and Chang, 2020) and personal hygiene products (Berardi et al, 2020) placed extra pressure on supply chain systems, inspiring studies to be conducted on distribution issues in adapting to the COVID-19 reality (Malmir and Zobel, 2021;Ivanov, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Emergency supplies purchase patterns during COVID-19 outbreak in the developing economy: frequency and stockpiling drivers’ assessment

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Kuzkin

Rossolova³

2021

JHLSCM

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PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to assess the roots of stockpiling behaviors and to give a quantitative assessment of shopping frequency changes for emergency supplies during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In addition, the authors aim to determine the sources that influenced emergency supply purchases during the COVID-19 outbreak.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a polling or survey process implementation to collect the data on shopping patterns and to determine the drivers of stockpiling behaviors for the assessment. The polling was conducted using a snowball technique, and descriptive and regression analyses were used to define the roots of the stockpiling behaviors and the shopping frequency changes.FindingsIt was determined that 88.0% of end-consumers increased their shopping volumes for emergency supplies. An almost twofold increase in the average duration of usage for stockpiled goods (from 11 to 21 days) was also determined. Also revealed was a reduction in shopping frequency from an average of seven (pre-COVID-19 period) to five (first wave of COVID-19 pandemic) days. Such disproportional increases in purchase volumes along with a slight reduction in shopping frequency indicate the strong stockpile patterns that occurred during the pandemic.Originality/valueThe research is based on data from Ukraine, where the number of COVID-19 cases was low. Despite the comparatively low spread of COVID-19 in large cities in Ukraine in relation to other cities globally, people still revealed panic and stockpiling behaviors. The study's quantitative assessment of shopping behaviors reveals the social and economic determinants of the shopping frequency.

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Section: Emergency Supplies Purchasesupporting

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Emergency supplies purchase patterns during COVID-19 outbreak in the developing economy: frequency and stockpiling drivers’ assessment

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2021

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“…The category of "natural crises" is divided into weather-dependent crises and biological crises, such as epidemics. A natural crisis is, for example, the humanitarian crisis in Africa, where international help is needed in order to be able to overcome the negative effects, e.g., the 2012-2014 Ebola epidemic [19]. A social crisis is defined as a crisis that affects the social lives of individuals.…”

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Crises and Their Effects on Freight Transport Modes: A Literature Review and Research Framework

2021

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Learning from the effects of past crises allows the transport sector to handle future crises effectively and proactively. The goal of this paper is to identify and classify types of crises that have hit Europe in the previous 20 years and to identify the effects of these crises on the freight transport modes. Moreover, further research on each transport mode is derived. To reach this goal, we conducted a systematic literature review by using five well-known databases, which resulted in 296 search results, of which 29 references were relevant. We identified four crises that hit the freight transport modes in the previous 20 years in Europe: the 2008 financial crisis, the 2015 migration crisis, the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, and the ongoing climate crisis. However, the effects of the different crises on the transport modes can be both positive (e.g., the introduction of a new maritime slow-steaming service) or negative (e.g., a reduction in safety). The insights, gaps, and future research directions identified will encourage researchers, as well as practitioners, to learn from previous crises and be prepared for proactive actions during future crises, thus contributing to more reliable and sustainable transportation systems.

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“…In terms of attention to the occurrence of disasters or emergency situations similar to COVID-19, it is important to guarantee effective and efficient processes for the correct delivery of goods and services as well as meet the survival requirements of the affected population [1][2][3]. In this context, it is important to properly define operational models that optimize the logistics' behavior of the stakeholders.…”

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Two-Stage Humanitarian Logistics Deprivation Model for the Planning of Scarce KN-95 Facemask Supplies under Agent’s Cooperation

Pineda-Martinez

Paternina-Arboleda

García-Llinás

2021

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Humanitarian logistics encompasses a wide spectrum of conditions or constraints for supply chains, yet its focus on mitigating human suffering efficiently is what has motivated organizations and governments to make rapid decisions in real time. In this article, through the approach to an emergency such as COVID-19, we propose a two-stage model capable of considering human suffering, the cost of humanitarian logistics, and the benefit obtained by the interaction of suppliers that generally behave as oligopolies through a mathematical programming model and one of the cooperative games. Our main finding was the adaptability of a previously validated model for humanitarian logistics to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where the externalities had greater relevance in social costs than private costs.

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Healthcare commodities for emergencies in Africa: review of logistics models, suggested model and research agenda

Cited by 20 publications

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Emergency supplies purchase patterns during COVID-19 outbreak in the developing economy: frequency and stockpiling drivers’ assessment

Emergency supplies purchase patterns during COVID-19 outbreak in the developing economy: frequency and stockpiling drivers’ assessment

Crises and Their Effects on Freight Transport Modes: A Literature Review and Research Framework

Two-Stage Humanitarian Logistics Deprivation Model for the Planning of Scarce KN-95 Facemask Supplies under Agent’s Cooperation

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