BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) are critical to the management of acute illness and injury, and the provision of health system access. However, EDs have become increasingly congested due to increased demand, increased complexity of care and blocked access to ongoing care (access block). Congestion has clinical and organisational implications. This paper aims to describe the factors that ...

Abstract Covid-19 has sparked calls for a universal basic income as way of coping with demand shock caused by the pandemic. Temporary payments have been part emergency response to This paper questions effectiveness temporary raise demand. Some observers claim that vouchers are better targeted at sectors hit hard people may tendency save than spend from payments. There be stronger case permanent...

nowadays generation capacity in traditional grid depends on fossil fuels and contributes significantly to the increase of pollution emission. in deregulated grids in addition to using demand response programs (drps) to reducing the cost of electricity production, peak clipping and improve reliability use of green plants such as hydro plant, wind plant become widespread. in a smart grid, end use...

PURPOSE The Melbourne Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board (MFESB) was the first fire service in Australia to implement a service-wide emergency medical response (EMR) program in 2001. No additional scientific analysis of the first responder program has been reported since the pilot program. The objective of this study was to report the first 7 years of responses by firefighters as fi...

We propose a maximal covering location problem for helicopter emergency medical service system. In the system, the transportation time of each patient to a hospital depends on both locations of helipads for helicopters to land and take off and hospitals for deploying helicopters. The aim of this paper is to provide an optimal location strategy of both the helipads and the hospitals so as to max...

Background and Objectives: A sudden jump in blood demand during natural disasters may have strong negative impact on the performance of blood supply chain. Appropriate response to emergency situations requires predictive approach to determining the optimal allocation of blood supply chain resources for various disaster scenarios. The present study, thus, presents an optimization model aimed at ...

BACKGROUND The current West African outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) began in Guinea in December 2013 and rapidly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. On 20 July 2014, a sick individual flew into Lagos, Nigeria, from Monrovia, Liberia, setting off an outbreak in Lagos and later in Port Harcourt city. The government of Nigeria, supported by the World Health Organization and other partner...