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Vaccine Supply Management

In: Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management

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  • Nafiseh Shamsi G.

    (University of Tehran)

  • S. Ali Torabi

    (University of Tehran)

Abstract

There are several causes such as natural or man-made disasters, malnutrition and environmental changes that may result in spread of infectious and communicable diseases which increases the risk of morbidity and mortality. Several control tools such as education and vaccination are adopted to prevent the spread of such epidemics. In this chapter, we focus on vaccination as a strong control tool and investigate the vaccine supply chains (VSCs) regarding some related challenges. The main problems of VSCs include vaccine sourcing, vaccine demand forecasting, vaccine shortages and the vaccine cold chains that suffer from the lack of mathematical modeling and precise solutions. Solving such problems may help the responsible public health organizations to improve the immunization coverage. Also, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of VSCs has a key role in a successful immunization program. Since stockpiling of vaccine supplies and VSC coordination are effective ways in on-time delivery of required vaccines and disease control interventions especially in the case of disasters and pandemics, we also review some related researches in VSC coordination contracts and appropriate stockpiling of necessary vaccines. The aim of this chapter is to classify some problems of the vaccine supply management, which has potential to be solved by the mathematical programming tools.

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  • Nafiseh Shamsi G. & S. Ali Torabi, 2018. "Vaccine Supply Management," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Cengiz Kahraman & Y. Ilker Topcu (ed.), Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management, chapter 0, pages 267-294, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-65455-3_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65455-3_11
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    1. Alam, Shahriar Tanvir & Ahmed, Sayem & Ali, Syed Mithun & Sarker, Sudipa & Kabir, Golam & ul-Islam, Asif, 2021. "Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).

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