The economic and operational value of using drones to transport vaccines

Vaccine

Volumn 34, Issue 34, 2016, Pages 4062-4067

  Haidari, Leila A ^a,b   Brown, Shawn T ^a,b   Ferguson, Marie ^c   Bancroft, Emily ^d   Spiker, Marie ^c   Wilcox, Allen ^d   Ambikapathi, Ramya ^c   Sampath, Vidya ^d   Connor, Diana L ^a,c   Lee, Bruce Y ^a,c  

^a HERMES Logistics Modeling Team   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VILLAGEREACH   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunization; Simulation modeling; UAV

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COST; COST CONTROL; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CENTER; IMMUNIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PROCEDURES; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

AVIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; TRANSPORTATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84979284472     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.06.022     Document Type: Article

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