Healthcare Waste Management (HWM) is considered as one of the important urban decision-making problems due to its potential environmental, economic, and social risks damages. The network HWM system involves decisions such facility locating, inventory management, transportation management. Moreover, with growing concerns towards sustainable development objectives, systems should address environm...

Cloud brokers are the indispensable components in multi cloud environment for seamless provisioning of services to the consumers. QoS based service discovery and selection is the area of contribution of this paper. The main challenge encountered here is to reduce the multi objective multi constraint optimization problem into a singular one as well as efficiently maintianing of the QoSs of the s...

Medical gas pipeline systems (MGPSs) are crucial for operating healthcare facilities as life-saving systems. The sustainability of MGPSs mandates optimum performance by reducing maintenance and repairs. Since faulty design is inventible, endure several design-caused issues that endanger the services life cycle costs. These decisions could have been avoided if proper consideration had applied. E...

blood supply chain management is one of the mainchallenges in healthcare system. optimal locationof blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the bloodsupply chain. disruption in location of blood donation camps because ofdisasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. thispaper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supplychain of...

With the emerging COVID-19 crisis, a critical task for public healthPublic health officials and policy makers is to decide how prioritize, locate, allocate scarce resources. To answer these questions, decision need be able determine location of required resources over time based on “hot spot” locations. Hot spots are defined as concentrated areas with sharp increases in cases. place stress exis...

Policy has focused on the unequal distribution of health workers, while potential for improvements in efficiency to address this problem been neglected. This study aims measure and compare level use available workforce delivery selected primary healthcare services among districts/cities Indonesia, identify factors influencing that efficiency. The Data Envelopment Analysis method with output ori...

in orders to promote the level of healthcare in societies, governments try to have different policies to transform the health system. the aim of this study was to measure the level of awareness of practitioners in iran, after initiating the new transformation of the health system in the country, starting from may 2014. this is a descriptive–cross-sectional study, which was inducted in october 2...

health care management in disasters is one of the main parts of disaster management. health in disasters is affected by performance of various sectors, and has an interactive impact on various aspects of disaster management. the aim of this study was to identify the most important themes affecting the healthcare management in disaster.in this qualitative study with a content analysis approach, ...