A Drug Delivery System in Controling the Spread of the Disease

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10.2991/emim-15.2015.180How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Graph theory; Monte Carlo algorithm; Global optimization model; Site selection problem

Abstract

In order to better control the spread of the disease, we should build a drug delivery system when the Ebola spread throughout the West Africa. We proposed that build up medical service centers to deliver drugs and vaccines to isolated regions. According to graph theory, the minimum number of the centers is set to seven under the conditions of the total area 428966km2 of three regions being Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the effective radius of single center is 140km. Afterwards, we assume that there are 50 isolated regions and the severity of epidemic region would take effect on drug demand, which refers to the Monte Carlo algorithm. Considering the cost and loss of the drug delivery, we select coordinates according to city site and develop constraint inequalities. Also, we use the global optimization model to deal with such a site selection problem. Under this situation, the optimal number of service centers is obtained as 10 after solving the mode. Thus, it’s important to build a drug delivery system to control the propagation of Ebola.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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