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COVID-19 has killed millions of people worldwide. As a result, medical and health resources continue to be strained, posing a great threat to people’s safety and economic and social development. This paper built the index system of influencing...

The balanced allocation of medical and health resources is an important basis for the sustainable development of health undertakings. In recent years, China has made remarkable achievements in the medical and health services, but there is still a phe...

Background: Although the expansion of medical resources has largely alleviated challenges of “more diseases but fewer medicines”, the growing urbanization and rapid aging in China have led to increasing demands of healthcare services in m...

Optimizing the allocation of basic medical services and ensuring their equity are necessary to improve the ability to respond to public health emergencies and promote health equity in the context of COVID-19. This study aims to analyze the equity of...

Background: Provincial pooling of the Urban–Rural Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) fund has been promoted in China to reduce fragmentation and improve system performance, yet its impact on the efficiency of medical resource allocation...

Background: Since the association between disparity in physician distribution and specific healthcare outcomes is poorly documented, we aimed to clarify the association between physician maldistribution and cerebrovascular disease (CeVD), a high-prio...

COVID-19 has caused more than 500 million infections and 6 million deaths. Due to a continuous shortage of medical resources, COVID-19 has raised alarm about medical and health resource allocation in China. A balanced spatial distribution of medical...

Health equity is a very important part of social equity. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) in a short period of time exposed the problems existing in the allocation of medical resources and the response to major public health...

Reasonably allocating medical resources can effsectively optimize the utilization efficiency of such resources. This paper took Taiyuan City as an example and established a model to evaluate the rationality of medical resource spatial allocation, inc...

The COVID-19 run on medical resources crashed Wuhan’s medical care system, a medical disaster duplicated in many countries facing the COVID-19 pandemic. In a novel approach to understanding the run on Wuhan’s medical resources, we draw from bank run...

Environmental and social factors influencing resource allocation in rural, developing regions are critical social determinants of health that necessitate cross-sector collaboration to improve health opportunities. Thus, we sought to evaluate the spat...

Does the development of a high-speed railway (HSR) have a significant impact on the equalization of medical and health resources allocated among cities? Based on the panel data of 67 cities in China from 2007 to 2016, this paper investigates the dire...

Medical resource allocation is an increasingly crucial issue. It is vital to understand residents’ (people living in the local area) evaluation of it. This study explores residents’ evaluation of medical resource allocation and its determ...

The sharp increase of the aging population has raised the pressure on the current limited medical resources in China. To better allocate resources, a more accurate prediction on medical service demand is very urgently needed. This study aims to impro...

Introduction: Resource trade-offs are a universal feature of decision-making in healthcare. Public funding for home care is an example of a complex resource allocation decision, requiring balance between the needs of the individual and the capacity o...

As a typical example of a high-density city, Macau’s medical resource allocation system, a key component of the city’s complex socio-technical system, suffers from significant spatial imbalances, which restricts the overall effectiveness...

Protecting residents’ health and improving equality are important goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has placed a heavy burden on the medical systems of many countries and been disastrous...

The rural three-tier healthcare system is an essential part of the Chinese healthcare service system. To ensure rural residents’ equal access to such healthcare services, it is necessary to examine the current status of the healthcare system in...

The outbreak of COVID-19 posed a significant challenge to the emergency management system for public health emergencies, especially in China, where the epidemic began. As intelligent technology has injected new vitality into emergency management, app...

Medical facilities are an important part of urban public facilities and a vital pillar for the survival of citizens at critical times. During the rapid spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Wuhan was forced into lockdown with a severe shortage of...

The global health care industry faces several challenges, such as an aging population, insufficient medical resources, and uneven allocation of high-quality medical resources. These challenges impede the development of a sustainable medical care syst...

While past research has largely supported the importance of physical activity for the health of older adults, during the COVID-19 pandemic, older individuals may have reduced their opportunities and levels of physical activity to lower the risk of in...

The nature of health care services is very complex and specific, thus delays and organizational imperfections can cause serious and irreversible consequences, especially when dealing with emergency medical services. Therefore, constant improvements i...

Smart cities can improve the quality of life of citizens by optimizing the utilization of resources. In an IoT-connected environment, people’s health can be constantly monitored, which can help identify medical problems before they become serio...

(1) Background: The rational allocation of limited medical resources is the premise of safeguarding the public health. Especially since the outbreak of COVID-19, the evolution dynamics and spatial mismatch of medical resources have been a focal and f...

As mental health issues become increasingly prominent, we are now facing challenges such as the severe unequal distribution of medical resources and low diagnostic efficiency. This paper integrates finite state machines, retrieval algorithms, semanti...

Smart health care will be a major application in future smart cities. Timely and precise delivery of patients’ data to their medical consultant, to allow the necessary actions, is one of the basic needs in health care systems. Blockchain techno...

The complexity of variation in healthcare, particularly in mental health, remains poorly understood. However, addressing this issue presents an opportunity to opti-mise the allocation of scarce healthcare resources. To explore this, we investigated t...

Globally, 20% to 40% of medical resources are wasted, which could be avoided through professional audit of health insurance claims. The professional audit can pinpoint excessive use of unnecessary medicines and medical examinations. Taiwan’s Na...

In response to public health emergencies, the importance of resilient medical facilities—such as large exhibition centers and sports venues that can be rapidly converted into temporary emergency hospitals—has become increasingly evident....

Spatiotemporal analysis of COVID-19 cases based on epidemiological characteristics leads to more refined findings about health inequalities and better allocation of medical resources in a spatially and timely fashion. While existing literature has ex...

Telemedicine has emerged as a vital component of contemporary healthcare, revolutionizing the way medical services are delivered and accessed (e.g., it enables patients living in underserved or rural areas to receive medical consultation and treatmen...

Background: While Chinese cities are pursuing economic development, meeting citizen demand for medical treatment has only gradually been put on the agenda. Theoretically, in the second half of a person’s life, demand for medical treatment will rise s...

At the end of March 2009, the Chinese government put forward the new health-care reform with its long-term goal to achieve universal access to basic medical and health services. Primary health-care institutions and adequate health human resources are...

Background/Objectives: The global health landscape is currently confronted with dual challenges from both infectious diseases and chronic conditions. Medical–preventive integration has emerged as a pivotal strategy to address these issues, aimi...

Increasing attention has recently been paid to the harm of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to women. However, due to the inconsistency of global clinical diagnostic standards and the differing allocation of medical resources among different regions,...

Sustainable rural development requires households to move beyond defensive medical spending and emergency borrowing toward more productive, forward-looking resource allocation. This study uses panel data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS)...

Introduction: Healthcare institutions and care providers, including medical professionals, were at the forefront of the rapid response to the challenges of the pandemic. As medical professionals across the country actively fought the COVID-19 pandemi...

Improving fiscal health expenditure efficiency is an inherent requirement of the strategy of “healthy China” and “high-quality development”. The outbreak of COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of efficient health system. F...

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a significant impact on global health since the start of the pandemic in 2019. As of June 2022, over 539 million cases have been confirmed worldwide with over 6.3 million deaths as a result. Artificial Intellige...

The historical legacy of Eastern European and the Balkans’ health systems was mutually interdependent and shaped by local socioeconomic circumstances. Three distinctive systems of risk sharing and health financing developed since the late XIX century...

As important unit for regional health planning, urbanized counties are facing challenges because of internal migrants and aging. This study took urbanized counties in China as cases and two key populations as objects to understand different populatio...

In the study of the sustainable development of public health in China, academic circles have little to do with the unique hierarchical medical system and online appointment diagnosis system in China’s medical system. Therefore, based on the med...

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease that has rapidly spread throughout the last few decades. Most preventive mechanisms to deal with the disease focus on the eradication of the vector mosquito and vaccination campaigns. However, appropriate mech...

Considering the high morbidity of hepatitis B in China, many epidemiological studies based on classic medical statistical analysis have been started but lack spatial information. However, spatial information such as the spatial distribution, autocorr...

Colorectal cancer burden is a threat to health systems in several countries. As the cost of diagnosing, treating, and managing this cancer is unknown in Antigua and Barbuda, this study aimed to estimate its direct medical cost in this country. We use...

Digital twins (DTs) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming important transformational tools in healthcare, enabling real-time simulation and personalized decision support at the patient level. The aim of this review is to critically exa...

The challenge of maintaining a standard of treatment has become a core issue due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and many countries are currently addressing this issue. Since public health policymaking is a multidimensional issue, including different aspec...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the healthcare industry, especially public health resources and resource allocation. With the change in people’s lifestyles and increased demand for medical and health care in the post-pandemic e...

As human lifespan increases and the need for elderly care grows, the demand for healthcare services and its associated costs have surged, causing a decline in the operational efficiency of universal healthcare. This has created an imbalance in medica...