Location-allocation models for casualty response planning during catastrophic health events

• Main Author: Caunhye, Aakil M
• Other Authors: Nie Xiaofeng
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Industrial engineering::Operations research
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/61672
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Catastrophic health events are natural or man-made incidents that result in casualty numbers that overwhelm the immediate response capabilities of healthcare systems. These events overpower hospitals even when the latter trigger contingency capacity surges that are usually sufficient to deal with re...