Enhancing mass vaccination programs with queueing theory and spatial optimization
One should consider losses from queueing to optimally place mass vaccination sites, even when empirically derived queueing parameters are not available. Due to the negative impacts of excessive wait times on participant satisfaction, reducing queueing attrition is also expected to yield downstream benefits and improve vaccination coverage in subsequent mass vaccination campaigns.
Authors
- Elvis W. Díaz
- Ricardo Castillo-Neyra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6629-2139)
- Sherrie Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0186-8069)
- Michael Z. Levy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4661-3764)
- Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2528-843X)
- Maria Rieders
- Srisa Changolkar
Institutions
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (PE)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2024-12-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1440673
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.58
Funders
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases