Facility management is an evolving discipline that has received attention from both professionals and researchers in recent years. Modern facility considers various interests related to material resources, among others, social environmental interests. An important opportunity for the improvement of this derives introduction Industry 4.0 technologies resources. In paper, we shall study problem i...

BACKGROUND Chronic disease is by far the leading cause of death worldwide and of increasing concern in low- and middle-income countries, including South Africa, where chronic diseases disproportionately affect the poor living in urban settings. The Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) has prioritized the management of chronic diseases and has developed a policy and framework (Adult ...

This paper explores a case of flexible facility layout, in which the layout process can be carried out in a dynamic manner responding to changing demands. We consider a facility such as an office building that needs to partition its interior space into units of different sizes and allocate them to different users. Facing different demands, each of which requires a different space size, the mana...

T his article addresses the management challenges inherent in bringing a replacement hospital facility online through a process that maintains the continuity of the organization’s business while maximizing the benefits of the new facility. Planning for the activation of a new facility incorporates the processes of identifying, defining, organizing, and facilitating all of the tasks that are req...

This paper studies a capacity management problem in which a facility provider offers its facility to two service providers. The facility provider can either pool the service providers together to share the facility or reserve a dedicated facility for the service providers. The service providers determine their service capacity levels to serve each market with linear time-sensitive demand. We as...

The paper summarises the main results gathered from two extensive applications of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to the integrated municipal solid waste management systems of Torino and Cuneo Districts in northern Italy. Scenarios with substantial differences in terms of amount of waste, percentage of SC and strategies for the disposal of residual waste are used in order to discuss on strategies t...

This paper presents a multiobjective continuous covering location problem in fuzzy environment. Because of uncertain covering radius, possibility of covering concept is introduced.Since, the uncertainty may cause risk of uncovering customers; the problemis formulated as a risk management model. The presented model is an extension of the discrete covering location models tocontinuous space. Two ...

Background An effective emergency referral transport system is the link between the home of the pregnant woman and a health facility providing basic or comprehensive emergency obstetric care. This study attempts to explore the role of emergency transport associated with maternal deaths in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh (UP).   Methods A descriptive study was carried out to assess the causes of a...

BACKGROUND Eclampsia remains a major cause of perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. We examined facilitators and barriers to the use of magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) in the management of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) in health facilities in Bauchi and Sokoto States in Nigeria. METHODS Data were collected from 80 health facilities using a cross-sectional, mixed method (quanti...

In South Africa, as elsewhere, Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities are managed by professional nurses. Little is known about the dimensions and challenges of their job, or what influences their managerial practice. Drawing on leadership and organizational theory, this study explored what the job of being a PHC manager entails, and what factors influence their managerial practice. We specifical...