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2021-08-07Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/9445
Quantifying Covid19-vaccine location strategies for Germany
dc.contributor.authorLeithäuser, Neele
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorJohann, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorKrumke, Sven O.
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Eva
dc.contributor.authorStreicher, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorScholz, Stefan
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-17T08:49:29Z
dc.date.available2021-12-17T08:49:29Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-07none
dc.identifier.other10.1186/s12913-021-06587-x
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/9152
dc.description.abstractBackground: Vaccines are an important tool to limit the health and economic damage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Several vaccine candidates already provided promising effectiveness data, but it is crucial for an effective vaccination campaign that people are willing and able to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Taking Germany as an example, we provide insights of using a mathematical approach for the planning and location of vaccination sites to optimally administer vaccines against Covid-19. Methods: We used mathematical programming for computing an optimal selection of vaccination sites out of a given set (i.e., university hospitals, health department related locations and general practices). Different patient-to-facility assignments and doctor-to-facility assignments and different constraints on the number of vaccinees per site or maximum travel time are used. Results: In order to minimize the barriers for people to get vaccinated, i.e., limit the one-way travel journey (airline distance) by around 35 km for 75% of the population (with a maximum of 70 km), around 80 well-positioned facilities can be enough. If only the 38 university hospitals are being used, the 75% distance increases to around 50 km (with a maximum of 145 km). Using all 400 health departments or all 56 000 general practices can decrease the journey length significantly, but comes at the price of more required staff and possibly wastage of only partially used vaccine containers. Conclusions: In the case of free assignments, the number of required physicians can in most scenarios be limited to 2 000, which is also the minimum with our assumptions. However, when travel distances for the patients are to be minimized, capacities of the facilities must be respected, or administrative assignments are prespecified, an increased number of physicians is unavoidable.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut
dc.rights(CC BY 3.0 DE) Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschlandger
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
dc.subjectLocation planningeng
dc.subjectCovid-19eng
dc.subjectVaccination planningeng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitnone
dc.titleQuantifying Covid19-vaccine location strategies for Germanynone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0257-176904/9152-1
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/9445
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.container-titleBMC Health Services Researchnone
local.edoc.container-issn1472-6963none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttps://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-021-06587-xnone
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameBioMed Centralnone
local.edoc.container-volume21none
local.edoc.container-issue780none
local.edoc.container-year2021none
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone

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