Mapping research on healthcare operations and supply chain management: a topic modelling-based literature review

I Ali, D Kannan - Annals of Operations Research, 2022 - Springer
The literature on healthcare operations and supply chain management has seen
unprecedented growth over the past two decades. This paper seeks to advance the body of …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review of the vehicle routing problem in reverse logistics operations

K Sar, P Ghadimi - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing rate at which goods ranging from food products to electronic products are
consumed has led to rapidly increasing waste worldwide. This huge amount of waste poses …

Designing a vaccine supply chain network considering environmental aspects

S Abbasi, S Zahmatkesh, A Bokhari… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the fight against SARS-COV-2, the vaccine has become a ubiquitous preventive measure.
Vaccination programs for COVID-19 are inadvertently creating large amounts of bio-medical …

[HTML][HTML] A location-inventory-routing problem to design a circular closed-loop supply chain network with carbon tax policy for achieving circular economy: An …

K Govindan, F Salehian, H Kian, ST Hosseini… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of the circular economy concept has pushed industry owners towards the
green supply chain and waste reduction. The closed-loop supply chain originates from the …

[HTML][HTML] Green reverse logistics network design for medical waste management: A circular economy transition through case approach

K Govindan, S Nosrati-Abarghooee, MM Nasiri… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The lack of proper management of medical waste leads to environmental pollution and
threatens the lives of communities. Good medical waste management means appropriate …

The IoT-enabled sustainable reverse supply chain for COVID-19 Pandemic Wastes (CPW)

B Mosallanezhad, F Gholian-Jouybari… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Supply chains have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the most recent
worldwide disaster. After the world health organization recognized the latest phenomena as …

The role of healthcare supply chain management in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: hot off the press

S Sriyanto, MS Lodhi, H Salamun, S Sardin, CF Pasani… - foresight, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The study aims to examine the role of health-care supply chain management
during the COVID-19 pandemic in a cross-section of 42 selected sub-Saharan African (SSA) …

COVID-19 medical waste transportation risk evaluation integrating type-2 fuzzy total interpretive structural modeling and Bayesian network

J Tang, X Liu, W Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
With the amount of medical waste rapidly increasing since the corona virus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic, medical waste treatment risk evaluation has become an important …

Global face mask pollution: threats to the environment and wildlife, and potential solutions

L Wang, S Li, IM Ahmad, G Zhang, Y Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Face masks are an indispensable low-cost public healthcare necessity for containing viral
transmission. After the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a pandemic, there was an …

[HTML][HTML] Two-phase COVID-19 medical waste transport optimisation considering sustainability and infection probability

C Cao, Y Xie, Y Liu, J Liu, F Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
A safe and effective medical waste transport network is beneficial to control the COVID-19
pandemic and at least decelerate the spread of novel coronavirus. Seldom studies …