Cold chains, interrupted: The use of technology and information for decisions that keep humanitarian vaccines cool
Cold chains, interrupted: The use of technology and information for decisions that keep humanitarian vaccines cool
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DOI：
10.1108/jhlscm-03-2017-0006
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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通讯作者：
Van de Walle, Bartel
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作者：
Comes, Tina;Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora;Van de Walle, Bartel
目的分析技术和信息在多大程度上支持、促进或支持疫苗接种活动中人道主义疫苗冷链的规划和实施决策。作者特别关注了三种可能在现场创造更灵活条件的新兴技术，并确定了进一步探索不确定性、信息和不可逆性之间联系的必要性。设计/方法/方法作者从基础设施和能力不足、信息差距和决策失败三个不同但相互关联的层面提出了冷链中断分析的基本结构。然后，作者回顾了三项人道主义技术及其对这些层面上疫苗运动的影响。在此基础上，制定了一项研究议程，以解决这篇综述提出的研究差距。发现人道主义疫苗冷链管理技术创新领域的三个关键研究差距。两位作者认为，改进能力、信息和决策的技术需要协调一致，不确定性、信息和不可逆性领域需要进一步调查，以实现这种协调。原创性/价值本文通过阐述技术和信息对疫苗活动规划和实施阶段决策的影响，从原创性/价值的角度提出了人道主义疫苗冷链问题。作者制定了一项议程，为研究人员和人道主义者提供一个视角，以改善冷链规划和实施在技术、信息和决策的交叉点。
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how far technology and information enable, facilitate or support the planning and implementation decisions in humanitarian vaccine cold chains for vaccination campaigns. The authors specifically focus on three emerging technologies that have the potential to create more flexible conditions in the field, and identify the need to further explore the link between uncertainty, information and irreversibility.Design/methodology/approach The authors present a basic structure for the analysis of cold chain disruptions in terms of three distinct yet connected layers of deficient infrastructure and capacity, information gaps and failures in decision making. The authors then review three humanitarian technologies and their impact on vaccine campaigns along these layers. From there, a research agenda is developed to address research gaps this review brought forward.Findings Three critical research gaps in the areas of technology innovation for humanitarian vaccine cold chain management are presented. The authors argue that technology to improve capacity, information and decisions need to be aligned, and that the areas of uncertainty, information and irreversibility require further investigation to achieve this alignment. In this way, the paper contributes to setting the research agenda on vaccine cold chains and connects humanitarian logistics to technology, information management and decision making.Originality/value This paper presents the humanitarian vaccine cold chain problem from an original angle by illuminating the implications of technology and information on the decisions made during the planning and implementation phases of a vaccine campaign. The authors develop an agenda to provide researchers and humanitarians with a perspective to improve cold chain planning and implementation at the intersection of technology, information and decisions.