Humanitarian and healthcare logistics

Long-lasting Insecticidal Net Campaigns for Malaria Control Considering Prioritization and Equity
Malaria remains a significant public health concern in several developing countries. Tropical weather, coupled with poor environmental …
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Long-lasting Insecticidal Net Campaigns for Malaria Control Considering Prioritization and Equity
Supporting platelet inventory management decisions: What is the effect of extending platelets’ shelf life?
Managing blood product inventories can be challenging due to stochastic supply and demand, varying shelf lives of the products, and the …
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Supporting platelet inventory management decisions: What is the effect of extending platelets’ shelf life?
A two stage stochastic programming for asset protection routing and a solution algorithm based on the Progressive Hedging algorithm
In this paper, a two-stage stochastic programming model is developed for the asset protection routing problem (APRP) to be employed in …
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A two stage stochastic programming for asset protection routing and a solution algorithm based on the Progressive Hedging algorithm
Robust optimization of the insecticide-treated bed nets procurement and distribution planning under uncertainty for malaria prevention and control
Vector control, particularly distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), constitutes one of the major pathways to prevent and …
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Proactive transshipment in the blood supply chain: A stochastic programming approach
The main objective when managing inventories in blood supply chains is to establish an efficient balance between the wastage and …
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Proactive transshipment in the blood supply chain: A stochastic programming approach
Two-stage stochastic programming approach for the medical drug inventory routing problem under uncertainty
Medical drug shortages are an important issue in health care, since they can significantly affect patients’ health. Thus, …
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Two-stage stochastic programming approach for the medical drug inventory routing problem under uncertainty
Disaster relief supply pre-positioning optimization: A risk analysis via shortage mitigation
Problems related to disaster management are strongly influenced by random outcomes, which indicates the importance of using a …
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A two-stage stochastic programming model for inventory management in the blood supply chain
Managing inventories in the blood supply chain is a challenging task, mainly due to the uncertain nature of the demand for blood units, …
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A two-stage stochastic programming model for inventory management in the blood supply chain