Optimal Medicine Distribution by Using AHP

DOI

10.2991/isss-15.2015.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Optimal Medicine; Distribution.

Abstract

When an epidemic disease break out, vaccines will be not enough at first, so we should take so many factors into consideration when distribute the medicines. In this paper, we take Ebola epidemic for example. To allocate the limited medicine reasonably to epidemic regions, we adopt the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the scale of medicine distribution. We take 3 indicators into consideration, which include Severity of Epidemic, Expenditure for Public Health and The Number of Medical Staff, then we compute the proportion of medicine distribution for three countries: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, finally, we distribute medicines according to the weight of the three countries correspondingly.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinli Zhou
PY  - 2015/08
DA  - 2015/08
TI  - Optimal Medicine Distribution by Using AHP
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Social Science (isss-15)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 222
EP  - 224
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/isss-15.2015.54
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