A planning model for the WHO-EPI vaccine distribution network in developing countries
A planning model for the WHO-EPI vaccine distribution network in developing countries
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10.1080/0740817x.2013.813094
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2014-08-03
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Brown, Shawn T.
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Chen, Sheng-I;Norman, Bryan A.;Brown, Shawn T.
在许多发展中国家，世界卫生组织扩大免疫计划（EPI）疫苗供应链的效率低下令人严重关切;这些效率低下导致成千上万的人没有得到充分免疫，并造成疾病流行的重大风险。因此，这些国家对建立工具来分析和优化疫苗如何从制造商到疫苗接受者的供应链的几个层次有很大的兴趣。本文建立了发展中国家典型疫苗分销网络的数学模型。这种模式已成功地适应供应链在三个不同的国家（尼日尔，泰国和越南），并讨论了其应用程序的几个问题的利益，在发展中国家的公共卫生管理人员。
In many developing countries, inefficiencies in the supply chain for the World Health Organization's Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) vaccines are of grave concern; these inefficiencies result in thousands of people not being fully immunized and creates significant risk of disease epidemics. Thus, there is a great deal of interest in these countries in building tools to analyze and optimize how vaccines flow down several levels of the supply chain from manufacturers to vaccine recipients. This article develops a mathematical model for typical vaccine distribution networks in developing countries. This model has been successfully adapted for supply chains in three different countries (Niger, Thailand, and Vietnam), and its application to several issues of interest to public health administrators in developing countries is discussed.