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Type 2 diabetes and healthcare resource utilisation in the Kingdom of Bahrain

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Type 2 diabetes is a growing health challenge in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the disease exerts significant pressure on the healthcare system.
Rabha AbdulAziz Salman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Travellers’ preferences towards existing and emerging means of first/last mile transport: a case study for the Almere centrum railway station in the Netherlands

open access: yesEuropean Transport Research Review, 2021
First/last mile transport is essential for transit but is often found to be the weakest link in a trip. Moreover, as a result of multiple developments (e.g.
Bas Stam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Readiness of health facilities to provide safe childbirth in Liberia: a cross-sectional analysis of population surveys, facility censuses and facility birth records

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background The provision of quality obstetric care in health facilities is central to reducing maternal mortality, but simply increasing childbirth in facilities not enough, with evidence that many facilities in sub-Saharan Africa do not fulfil even ...
Jessica King   +9 more
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Last Mile

open access: yesAdvances in Social Work, 2021
This critical review of literature evaluates the impact of COVID-19 on health and mental health care delivery in rural Indiana, specifically the move to increased telehealth services. Telehealth has been a mostly positive experience for patients and providers.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Last Mile [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2014
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases-supported Kidney Research National Dialogue asked the scientific community to formulate and prioritize research objectives that would enhance understanding of kidney function and disease and improve clinical outcomes.
Delphine S, Tuot   +8 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Last‐mile delivery with drone and lockers

open access: yesNetworks, 2023
AbstractIn this article, we define a new routing problem that arises in the last‐mile delivery of parcels, in which customers can be served either directly at home by a capacitated truck, or possibly with a drone carried on the truck, or in a self‐service mode using one of the available lockers.
Boschetti Marco Antonio   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A Viewpoint on the Challenges and Solutions for Driverless Last-Mile Delivery

open access: yesMachines, 2022
The occurring growth in e-commerce comes along with an increasing number of first-time delivery failures due to the customer’s absence at the delivery location.
Vasiliki Balaska   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of humanitarian last mile distribution model [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2014
Purpose – – The purpose of this paper is to extend a routing model so that it may be applied to a real case study of material deliveries involved in a development operation, typical of regular humanitarian logistics, and to explore the impact of ...
Daria Battini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prioritizing Risks in Last Mile Delivery: A Bayesian Belief Network Approach

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
The remarkable explosion of e-commerce has marked the latest years of different industries and put forward a higher requirement for the last mile delivery.
Hajed Mismar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subsidized ridesourcing for the first/last mile: how valuable for whom?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2020
The first/last mile is a long known deterrent to public transportation use, yet difficult to solve with fixed route transit. Many transit agencies are exploring partnerships with ridesourcing companies to offer subsidized feeder services.
Daniel J. Reck, Kay W. Axhausen
doaj   +1 more source

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