Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of food access and other vulnerability measures on the COVID-19 progression to inform the public health decision-makers while setting priority rules for vaccine schedules. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors used the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the contributions of queueing theory to hospital capacity management to improve organizational performance and deal with increased demand in the healthcare sector. Design/methodology/approach: Models were applied to six months of inpatient...