Quantifying Covid19-Vaccine Location Strategies For Germany
| Autor: | Eva Schmidt, Johanna Schneider, Neele Leithäuser, Stefan Scholz, Sven O. Krumke, Manuel Streicher, Sebastian S. Johann |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Publica |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
COVID-19 Vaccines Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Computer science Population Health informatics Health administration vaccination planning Germany location planning Pandemic medicine Humans Operations management ddc:610 education Pandemics Vaccines education.field_of_study SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Research Health Policy Public health Nursing research Vaccination COVID-19 University hospital Travel time Location planning Order (business) Vaccination planning Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 business Covid-19 610 Medizin und Gesundheit Health department |
| Zdroj: | BMC Health Services Research, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2021) BMC Health Services Research |
| DOI: | 10.21203/rs.3.rs-110285/v1 |
| Popis: | Background Vaccines are an important tool to limit the health and economic damage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several vaccine candidates already provided promising effectiveness data, but it is crucial for an effective vaccination campaign that people are willing and able to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Taking Germany as an example, we provide insights of using a mathematical approach for the planning and location of vaccination sites to optimally administer vaccines against Covid-19. Methods We used mathematical programming for computing an optimal selection of vaccination sites out of a given set (i.e., university hospitals, health department related locations and general practices). Different patient-to-facility assignments and doctor-to-facility assignments and different constraints on the number of vaccinees per site or maximum travel time are used. Results In order to minimize the barriers for people to get vaccinated, i.e., limit the one-way travel journey (airline distance) by around 35 km for 75% of the population (with a maximum of 70 km), around 80 well-positioned facilities can be enough. If only the 38 university hospitals are being used, the 75% distance increases to around 50 km (with a maximum of 145 km). Using all 400 health departments or all 56 000 general practices can decrease the journey length significantly, but comes at the price of more required staff and possibly wastage of only partially used vaccine containers. Conclusions In the case of free assignments, the number of required physicians can in most scenarios be limited to 2 000, which is also the minimum with our assumptions. However, when travel distances for the patients are to be minimized, capacities of the facilities must be respected, or administrative assignments are prespecified, an increased number of physicians is unavoidable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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