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Moving towards “mobile warehouse”: Last-mile logistics during COVID-19 and beyond

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021
Supply chains in general and last-mile logistics in particular, have been disrupted due to COVID-19. Though several innovative last-mile logistics solutions have been proposed in the past, they possess certain limitations, especially during COVID-19 ...
S. Srivatsa Srinivas, Rahul R. Marathe
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Last mile research: a conceptual map

Global Health Action, 2021
Background: The term ‘last mile’ has been used across disciplines to refer to populations who are farthest away, most difficult to reach, or last to benefit from a program or service.
Colleen M. Davison, Susan A Bartels, Eva Purkey, Abigail H Neely, Elijah Bisung, Amanda Collier, Sherri Dutton, Heather M Aldersey, Kendall Hoyt, Chelsey L Kivland, Jennifer Carpenter, Elizabeth A Talbot, Lisa V Adams   +12 more
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Making last mile logistics models aware of customer choices, demand sustainability and data economy

European Transport Research Review
By 2030, the rise of delivery vehicles in the ten most populated cities worldwide is expected to increase GHG emissions between 21% and 32%. This trend puts pressure on public and private stakeholders to take measures to improve the sustainability of ...
Katharina Beck, Javi Esquillor, Mohammad Mahdi Zarei, Isabel Froes, Isabella Hauswald, Amalia Giannakopoulou, Heike Flämig   +6 more
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Enhancing Last-Mile Logistics: AI-Driven Fleet Optimization, Mixed Reality, and Large Language Model Assistants for Warehouse Operations [PDF]

Sensors
Due to the rapid expansion of e-commerce and urbanization, Last-Mile Delivery (LMD) faces increasing challenges related to cost, timeliness, and sustainability.
Saverio Ieva, Ivano Bilenchi, Filippo Gramegna, Agnese Pinto, Floriano Scioscia, Michele Ruta, Giuseppe Loseto   +6 more
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Remoteness and maternal and child health service utilization in rural Liberia: A population–based survey [PDF]

Journal of Global Health, 2015
This study seeks to understand distance from health facilities as a barrier to maternal and child health service uptake within a rural Liberian population.
Avi Kenny, Gaurab Basu, Madeleine Ballard, Thomas Griffiths, Katherine Kentoffio, Jean Bosco Niyonzima, G. Andrew Sechler, Stephen Selinsky, Rajesh R. Panjabi, Mark J. Siedner, John D. Kraemer   +10 more
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A repeated cross-sectional study of the association of community health worker intervention with the maternal continuum of care in rural Liberian communities

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background The maternal continuum of care (CoC) (antenatal care, facility-based delivery, postnatal care) is critical to maternal and neonatal health and reducing mortality, but completion in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries is often ...
Sam Blizzard, Mardieh Dennis, Marion Subah, Bentoe Zoogley Tehoungue, Romax Zizi, John D. Kraemer, Emily White, Lisa R. Hirschhorn   +7 more
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Design and implementation of a mobile health electronic data capture platform that functions in fully-disconnected settings: a pilot study in rural Liberia

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020
Background Mobile phones and personal digital assistants have been used for data collection in developing world settings for over three decades, and have become increasingly common.
Avi Kenny, Nicholas Gordon, Jordan Downey, Owen Eddins, Kathleen Buchholz, Alvin Menyon, William Mansah   +6 more
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Optimizing community healthcare coverage in remote Liberia [PDF]

Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2016
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study describing a collaboration with Last Mile Health, a non-governmental organization, to develop a framework to inform its community healthcare networks in remote Liberia.
Paige VonAchen, Karen Smilowitz, Mallika Raghavan, Ross Feehan   +3 more
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Title: Expansion of a national differentiated service delivery model to support people living with HIV and other chronic conditions in South Africa: a descriptive analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background South Africa is home to 7.7 million people living with HIV and supports the largest antiretroviral therapy (ART) program worldwide. Despite global investment in HIV service delivery and the parallel challenge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Lingrui Liu, Sarah Christie, Maggie Munsamy, Phil Roberts, Merlin Pillay, Sheela V. Shenoi, Mayur M. Desai, Erika L. Linnander   +7 more
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Relación entre last mile y milk run. Revisión de literatura y clasificación de soluciones a los principales desafíos que afronta el Perú en la logística de última milla

Ingeniería Industrial, 2022
Frente a los escenarios logísticos que afronta el Perú, el artículo analiza las relaciones que existen entre milk run y last mile mediante una revisión de literatura; en ese sentido, se presenta una clasificación general de sus componentes y las ...
Julio Abraham Ramos Quispe, Kareen Elena Flores Sanjinez, Rosario Natalia Zavala Bejarano, Victor Andres Ccahuana Cutipa   +3 more
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