Integrated temporary facility location and casualty allocation planning for post-disaster humanitarian medical service

Liu, Yang; Cui, Na; Zhang, Jianghua

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2019.05.008

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“…as disasters have happened previously, the resilience of logistics and supply lines had been studied (primarily for natural disasters, such as floods, earthquakes and wars 88 ). these included exploring the optimal choice of 'logistics service providers' to prepare for disasters 89 , and studying the optimal 'temporary facility location' problem to cope with disasters 90 . However, the scenarios were investigated for a defined scale and geography, not considering a pandemic, which is rarer yet more disruptive.…”

Section: Laboratory Medicinementioning

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“…However, the severe initial manufacturing disruption seems to have been temporary 88 (Box 2 ). It has currently been overcome through existing networks, expertise and industrial capacity, in addition to regulatory and governmental support 89 , 90 . Still, sterile swabs for sampling the throat and/or nasopharynx are in very high demand globally, which is sometimes a limiting factor, and test penetration in, for instance, Africa is far from complete 91 , 92 .…”

Section: Mass Production Of Testsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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During the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, design, development, validation, verification and implementation of diagnostic tests were actively addressed by a large number of diagnostic test manufacturers. Hundreds of molecular tests and immunoassays were rapidly developed, albeit many still await clinical validation and formal approval. In this Review, we summarize the crucial role of diagnostic tests during the first global wave of COVID-19. We explore the technical and implementation problems encountered during this early phase in the pandemic, and try to define future directions for the progressive and better use of (syndromic) diagnostics during a possible resurgence of COVID-19 in future global waves or regional outbreaks. Continuous global improvement in diagnostic test preparedness is essential for more rapid detection of patients, possibly at the point of care, and for optimized prevention and treatment, in both industrialized countries and low-resource settings.

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“…The authors focus on investigating the "event classification and location prediction" for disasters using data from social media. Liu et al (2019b) examine analytically the optimal "casualty allocation" problem after the disaster event has happened. Most recently, Jeong et al (2020) propose the adoption of "flying warehouses" for humanitarian activities when a disaster event happens.…”

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Innovative “Bring-Service-Near-Your-Home” operations under Corona-Virus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) outbreak: Can logistics become the Messiah?

Choi

2020

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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The corona virus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) outbreak has created serious disruptions to many business operations. Among them, many service operations, which require customers to travel and visit a place indoor, become almost infeasible to run in a crowded city like Hong Kong. Motivated by a recent reported real case on an innovative service operation in Hong Kong, we build analytical models to explore how logistics and technologies together can transform the "static service operations" to become the "bring-service-near-your-home" mobile service operations. We also highlight how the government may provide the subsidy to support the above mentioned mobile service operation (MSO) to make it financially viable. We specifically show that the government may adopt the fixed-cost-subsidy (FCS) scheme, operations-cost-subsidy (OCS) scheme or safety-technology-support (STS) scheme to help. We further uncover that the OCS scheme would bring a larger consumer surplus than the FCS scheme and is hence more preferable. In the extended models, we first study the case when service fee cannot be changed because of corona virus outbreak (CVO). We then explore the feasibility of adopting MSO in the long run as a financially self-sustainable service operation and derive the analytical conditions under which MSO is a win-win business model for both the service provider and consumers. Finally, we study the optimal safety technology investment problem.

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“…Liu et al. (2019) develop a bi‐objective optimization model to integrate temporary facility location and casualty allocation planning for postdisaster humanitarian medical service. An iteration method based on

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A game‐theoretic approach for the location of terror response facilities with both disruption risk and hidden information

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Int Trans Operational Res

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Recently, locating emergency response facilities has been drawing increasing attention with the highly strategic nature of terrorist attacks. To this end, we present a game‐theoretic approach for the location of terror response facilities when both disruption risk and hidden information are taken into account. The game is described as a two‐stage game, in which the first stage allows the State, that is, defender, to locate the terror response facilities, including disclosed and undisclosed facilities, and assign them to the attacked city, while the second stage allows the terrorist, that is, attacker, to select one city to attack with partial information about facility location and assignment. We propose a mixed integer bi‐level nonlinear programming formulation, and in response, a heuristic algorithm is developed to find the equilibrium solution. Extensive computational tests on both synthetic data and a real‐world dataset of provincial capital cities in China demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed algorithm.

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Integrated temporary facility location and casualty allocation planning for post-disaster humanitarian medical service

Cited by 95 publications

References 50 publications

Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests

Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests

Innovative “Bring-Service-Near-Your-Home” operations under Corona-Virus (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) outbreak: Can logistics become the Messiah?

A game‐theoretic approach for the location of terror response facilities with both disruption risk and hidden information

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