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The Allocation Method for Personal Protective Equipment in the Emerging Infectious Disease Environment

The COVID-19 pandemic gives humankind a lesson that the outbreak of an emerging infectious disease (EID) is sudden and uncertain. Accurately mastering its dynamics and putting forward an efficient and fair humanitarian logistics plan for personal protective equipment (PPE) remains difficult. This st...

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Autores principales: Zhan, Sha-lei, Gu, Xinyi, Ye, Yong, Chuang, Yen-Ching
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9196938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712292
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904569
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author Zhan, Sha-lei
Gu, Xinyi
Ye, Yong
Chuang, Yen-Ching
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description The COVID-19 pandemic gives humankind a lesson that the outbreak of an emerging infectious disease (EID) is sudden and uncertain. Accurately mastering its dynamics and putting forward an efficient and fair humanitarian logistics plan for personal protective equipment (PPE) remains difficult. This study examines the decision making for humanitarian logistics to answer the question that how to coordinate fairness and efficiency when facing supply-demand imbalance during humanitarian logistics planning in an EID environment. The main contributions include two aspects: (1) The victims' losses in terms of fairness and efficiency in receiving PPE are jointly explored by evaluating their bearing capacity evolution, and then a novel loss function is built to search for a reasonable compromise between fairness and efficiency. (2) A multi-objective optimization model is built, which is solved using the combined use of goal programming approach and improved branch and bound method. Finally, the practicability of the proposed model is tested by an EID case study. The potential advantages of the proposed model and improved approach are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-91969382022-06-15 The Allocation Method for Personal Protective Equipment in the Emerging Infectious Disease Environment Zhan, Sha-lei Gu, Xinyi Ye, Yong Chuang, Yen-Ching Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic gives humankind a lesson that the outbreak of an emerging infectious disease (EID) is sudden and uncertain. Accurately mastering its dynamics and putting forward an efficient and fair humanitarian logistics plan for personal protective equipment (PPE) remains difficult. This study examines the decision making for humanitarian logistics to answer the question that how to coordinate fairness and efficiency when facing supply-demand imbalance during humanitarian logistics planning in an EID environment. The main contributions include two aspects: (1) The victims' losses in terms of fairness and efficiency in receiving PPE are jointly explored by evaluating their bearing capacity evolution, and then a novel loss function is built to search for a reasonable compromise between fairness and efficiency. (2) A multi-objective optimization model is built, which is solved using the combined use of goal programming approach and improved branch and bound method. Finally, the practicability of the proposed model is tested by an EID case study. The potential advantages of the proposed model and improved approach are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9196938/ /pubmed/35712292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904569 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhan, Gu, Ye and Chuang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short The Allocation Method for Personal Protective Equipment in the Emerging Infectious Disease Environment
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topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9196938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712292
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904569
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