Global pandemic COVID-19 rapidly spreads to many countries, causing enormous economic loss and ma... more Global pandemic COVID-19 rapidly spreads to many countries, causing enormous economic loss and many deaths in 2020. Low accessibility and availability of medical resources (including screening/testing, prevention, and treatment facilities) for the at-risk populations is an urgent, important issue in preventing and controlling the pandemic. Due to the rapidly changing nature of acute and severe infectious disease transmission, existing geographical accessibility methods, such as floating catchment analysis (FCA), cannot reflect the epidemic-induced demand for medical resources, significantly varying over space and time. Matching the availability of medical resources should consider the demand and supply at different epidemic stages simultaneously. Thus, it is necessary to incorporate the spatial–temporal dynamics of epidemic-induced demand into assessing medical resource availability. The objective of the study is to build an integrated mathematical model, named Epi-RA, which combine...
Global pandemic COVID-19 rapidly spreads to many countries, causing enormous economic loss and ma... more Global pandemic COVID-19 rapidly spreads to many countries, causing enormous economic loss and many deaths in 2020. Low accessibility and availability of medical resources (including screening/testing, prevention, and treatment facilities) for the at-risk populations is an urgent, important issue in preventing and controlling the pandemic. Due to the rapidly changing nature of acute and severe infectious disease transmission, existing geographical accessibility methods, such as floating catchment analysis (FCA), cannot reflect the epidemic-induced demand for medical resources, significantly varying over space and time. Matching the availability of medical resources should consider the demand and supply at different epidemic stages simultaneously. Thus, it is necessary to incorporate the spatial–temporal dynamics of epidemic-induced demand into assessing medical resource availability. The objective of the study is to build an integrated mathematical model, named Epi-RA, which combine...
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