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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Health Economics
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1368876
This article is part of the Research Topic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemics and Syndemics on Healthcare Systems Worldwide View all 15 articles

Assessing the Impact of Vaccination and Medical Resource Allocation on Infectious Disease Outbreak Management: A Case Study of COVID-19 in Taiyuan City

Provisionally accepted
Jiaming Guo Jiaming Guo 1Luo Yuxin Luo Yuxin 1Yifei Ma Yifei Ma 1Shujun Xu Shujun Xu 1Jiantao Li Jiantao Li 2Tong Wang Tong Wang 1Lijian Lei Lijian Lei 1Lu He Lu He 1Hongmei Yu Hongmei Yu 1*Jun Xie Jun Xie 3*
  • 1 School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China
  • 2 School of Management, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China
  • 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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    Amidst an emerging infectious disease outbreak, the rational allocation of vaccines and medical resources is crucial for controlling the epidemic’s progression. Analysing COVID-19 data in Taiyuan City from December 2022 to January 2023, this study constructed a dynamics model to assess the impact of COVID-19 vaccination and resource allocation on epidemic trends. Results indicate that vaccination significantly reduces infection rates, hospitalisations, and severe cases, while also curtailing strain on medical resources by reducing congestion periods. An early and sufficient reserve of medical resources can delay the onset of medical congestion, and with increased maximum capacity of medical resources, the congestion’s end can be accelerated. Stronger resource allocation capabilities lead to earlier congestion resolution within a fixed total resource pool. Therefore, integrating vaccination and medical resource allocation can effectively reduce medical congestion duration and alleviate the epidemic’s strain on medical resource capacity (CCMR).

    Keywords: COVID-19, Carrying capacity of medical resource, Vaccination, Medical resource allocation, Infectious disease outbreak management, China

    Received: 11 Jan 2024; Accepted: 29 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Guo, Yuxin, Ma, Xu, Li, Wang, Lei, He, Yu and Xie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Hongmei Yu, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi Province, China
    Jun Xie, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

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