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| Developing new heuristics and hybrid meta-heuristics to address the bi-objective home health care problem. By Bavar, Avesta Central European Journal of Operations Research. Sep2025, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p947-1003. 57p. Abstract :Nowadays, population aging is a problem many countries worldwide face to the degree that the world`s aged population is currently at its highest level in human history. Obviously, the number of nurses, doctors, retirement homes, hospitals, and the resources necessary to provide good health care for this population must increase correspondingly. As the elderly population increases, so does the demand for home health care services. The main challenges service providers face are scheduling meetings, transportation of the nurses or patients, providing the required medicine to the pharmacies on time, the service`s environmental effects, the service, the availability of the service, and more. In this paper, a bi-objective home health care problem considering both transportation costs and greenhouse gas emissions is investigated to diminish the shortcomings of previous studies. Contrary to the previous related works, especially to extend the solution approach based on AM Fathollahi-Fard (J Clean Prod 200:423-443, 2018a), some new ideas were presented to design ten new heuristics for the problem. Also, hybrid versions of recent and well-known metaheuristic algorithms address the problem. Finally, the proposed heuristics, metaheuristics, and hybrid metaheuristics are compared and analyzed, not only with the previously developed heuristics, but also among themselves, to evaluate their performances. The results illustrate the superiority of some of the proposed algorithms in most of the defined problems. | |||
| Antifragile, sustainable and agile healthcare waste chain network design by considering blockchain, resiliency, robustness and risk. By Lotfi, Reza Central European Journal of Operations Research. Sep2025, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p1047-1080. 34p. Abstract :This study focuses on the most critical issue facing the COVID-19 pandemic: Healthcare Waste Management (HWM). With the increase in patient numbers, effective HWM becomes critical. This research focuses on the framework of a Healthcare Waste Chain Network (HWCND), which includes essential components including health centers, waste segregation, Waste Purchase Contractors, and landfills. We provide a new robust stochastic optimization approach incorporating risk criteria, specifically the entropic value at risk, to deal with uncertainty, risk interruptions, and demand fluctuations. Furthermore, this study incorporates antifragility, sustainability, and agility principles into the HWCND framework, which includes Blockchain Technology (BCT), flexible capacity, CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and population risk restrictions. Notably, this is the first attempt to combine these notions in the context of HWCND. The results show that introducing antifragility reduces the cost function by about 5.85% compared to scenarios without antifragility. Furthermore, increasing the conservatism coefficient and confidence level alters the cost function, causing it to trend upward. Furthermore, the agility coefficient has a 5.3% influence on the linear cost function. Finally, the magnitude of the challenge influences solution time and costs. | |||
| The Smart Case for Private Health Care. By Day, Brian Maclean`s. Aug2025, Vol. 138 Issue 7, p38-46. 9p. 4 Color Photographs. Abstract :The article discusses the challenges faced by Canada`s public healthcare system, particularly the long wait times for necessary medical procedures, and argues that introducing private competition could alleviate these issues. It highlights the case of a 75-year-old patient who faced a lengthy wait for hip-replacement surgery, prompting him to consider private care abroad. The author notes that Canada is unique in prohibiting private insurance for publicly insured services, which has led to significant patient suffering and even deaths while waiting for care. The article advocates for a hybrid healthcare model that incorporates private options, drawing on successful examples from other countries to improve efficiency and reduce wait times. | |||
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