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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Decision Analysis of Disturbance Management in the Process of Medical Supplies Transportation after Natural Disasters.

Yuhe Shi, Zhenggang He

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuhe ShiSchool of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China. SHI681242@163.com.
Zhenggang HeSchool of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China. hezhenggang@swjtu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-8345-1522
Southwest Jiaotong University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public health emergencies, such as casualties and epidemic spread caused by natural disasters, have become important factors that seriously affect social development. Special medical supplies, such as blood and vaccines, are important public health medical resources, and the cold-chain distribution of medical supplies is in a highly unstable environment after a natural disaster that is easily affected by disturbance events. This paper innovatively studies the distribution optimization of medical supplies after natural disasters from the perspective of disturbance management. A disturbance management model for medical supplies distribution is established from two dimensions: time and cost. In addition, a hybrid genetic algorithm is introduced to solve the model. Disturbance recovery schemes with different weight coefficients are obtained through the actual numerical experiments, and experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm. Finally, we discuss the formulation of weight coefficients in the case of emergency distribution and general distribution, which provide a reference for emergency decisions in disturbance events.

Indexed as

Decision Support TechniquesNatural DisastersTransportationAlgorithmsDisaster PlanningEquipment and SuppliesHealth ResourcesHumansModels, Theoreticalcold-chain distributiondisturbance managementhybrid genetic algorithmmedical supplies transportationnatural disasters

Identifiers

PMID30081507
PMCPMC6121372
OpenAlexW2885289129

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