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ABSTRACT
The aims of this paper are to ‘identify’, analyze’, and categorize’ the factors impacting humanitarian activities in healthcare during life-threatening pandemics like COVID-19 using Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM). Nine humanitarian operation factors have been identified for healthcare during a life-threatening pandemic like COVID-19. The study states that the key factors are resource shortages, external factors, and a shortage of medical and non-medical specialists. The study focused primarily on humanitarian operations characteristics for the healthcare sector. The present study will assist key stakeholders and academics in gaining a better knowledge of the factors that impact humanitarian healthcare operations during life-threatening pandemics like COVID-19. The study analyses the interrelationships among humanitarian operations factors using humanitarian operations during life-threatening pandemics. During life-threatening, which is a novel attempt in the subject of this sector.
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Ethics approval
The study titled ‘Factors impacting Humanitarian Operations in Healthcare during life-threatening pandemics like covid-19’ was approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee Board.
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Albi Thomas
Albi Thomas is a research scholar at Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration-Healthcare Management from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. Her field of study is Healthcare Agility. Her research interests include agile healthcare operations, Lean-sustainable healthcare operations, Service operations. She is currently working on agile sustainable healthcare operations.
M. Suresh
M. Suresh is an Associate Professor at Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India. He holds a PhD in Project Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and Master’s in Industrial Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. His research interests include issues related to lean and agile operations and performance management. He has authored several papers in Operations Management and currently working on lean and agile Healthcare Operations Management. He is also a member of International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.
Bhavin Shah
Bhavin Shah holds a PhD (Fellow) and Masters (PGDIE) degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India. He is a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. Bhavin has research and teaching experience of more than 12 years in interdisciplinary domains such as Lean thinking in warehousing and logistics, Information Systems and Data Analytics applications to Supply Chain, IT-enabled operations management, Optimization using computer algorithms, and Simulation and Modelling of Operations-Marketing Interfaces. His research has featured in internationally acknowledged Journals and Conferences. He is on-board of multiple journals in the capacity of editorial member and reviewer.