Patients are traditionally treated in hospitals and healthcare facilities. However, many care
services known as Home Health Care (HHC) are provided at patients' homes. Despite the …

Home health services arise from the need for hospitals to care for patients and/or dependent
persons who, due to special conditions, require hospitalisation and/or care at home. The …

Currently, the healthcare of elderly people arouses widespread concerns since the sharp
increase of aging population puts severe stress on public medical resources. Home health …

Today, research on healthcare logistics is an important challenge in developing and
developed countries, especially when a pandemic such as COVID-19 occurs. The …

The application of optimization techniques to home care service planning has received
increasing attention, as more patients are in need of dedicated care. Currently, the problem …

This paper suggests a bi-objective mathematical model, called HHC-MOVRPTW for the
home health care routing and scheduling problem. HHC-MOVRPTW aims to minimize the …

In developing countries, the demand for old aged people requiring private health care at
home is dramatically growing with the improvement of living standards. Since vehicles are …

Increasing environmental concerns and the advancement of battery technologies have
attracted a growing focus on electric vehicles (EVs) for green travel and distribution. We …

At present, home health care services supply is still insufficient and unbalanced in China,
and the elderly nursing manpower is particularly scarce. Therefore, it is important to …

This paper addresses a home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP)
specifically focusing on the context of a pandemic environment. The investigated HHCRSP …