چكيده به لاتين
Despite immense improvements in healthcare systems and disaster management during recent decades, the world is still struggling with the enormous number of people affected by disasters. The growing number of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods or destructive storms, and the occurrence of terrorist attacks and wars; highlights the necessity of disaster management and investment in this area to reduce the damage caused by these disasters. Providing the needs of individuals in disaster situations is essential. Apart from daily needs, including water, food and shelter, health care of injured individuals should highly be taken into consideration. Based on this, the supply chain of health care from the presence and aid of doctors to provide medical equipment, blood products and medicine, plays a vital role in the health of the injured individuals and reduces human death and restores the morale of the victims. Among the above-mentioned items, blood and blood products are known as perishable products, and providing this scarce commodity is vital and challenging as well. There is no need to mention that any delay in responding to blood product demands, results in numerous human deaths This research proposes a new multi-objective mathematical model to design efficient and effective blood supply chain network in earthquake. For the first time in this field of knowledge, disaster severity index is used to estimate the number of blood product demands during potential disasters. Further, the application of the proposed multi-objective mathematical model is investigated in a real-world case study Iran’s capital, Tehran, which is considered to be a potential place for a severe earthquake. The mathematical model aims to minimize total supply chain costs, expired blood products and minimize the maximum unsatisfied demands.
