Contributing to health system resilience during pandemics via purchasing and supply strategies: an exploratory system dynamics approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems worldwide struggled to obtain sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic due to global supply chain disruptions. Our study's aim was to create a proof-of-concept model that would simulate the effects of supply strategies under various scenarios, to ultimately help decision-makers decide on alternative supply strategies for future similar health system related crises.

Methods

We developed a system dynamics model that linked a disease transmission model structure (susceptible, exposed, infectious, recovered (SEIR)) with a model for the availability of critical supplies in hospitals; thereby connecting care demand (patients' critical care in hospitals), with care supply (available critical equipment and

SUBMITTER: Gotz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10807148 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature