• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Viable healthcare supply chain network design for a pandemic
  • Beteiligte: Alizadeh, Mehdi; Pishvaee, Mir Saman; Jahani, Hamed; Paydar, Mohammad Mahdi; Makui, Ahmad
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Annals of Operations Research, 328 (2023) 1, Seite 35-73
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10479-022-04934-7
  • ISSN: 0254-5330; 1572-9338
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  • Beschreibung: AbstractThe recent COVID-19 pandemic revealed that healthcare networks must have a flexible and effective structure. In this study, we develop a viable healthcare network design for a pandemic using a multi-stage stochastic approach. We propose a multi-level network that includes health centers, computed tomography scan centers, hospitals, and clinics. Patients have conditions to returning to normal life or quarantining at home. Three objectives are defined: maximizing the probability of patient recovery, minimizing the costs of all centers in the network, and minimizing the Coronavirus death rate. We investigate a real case study in Iran to demonstrate the model’s applicability. Finally, we compare the healthcare supply chain network design in a pandemic with a normal situation to advise how the network can continue to remain viable.