[APDIO] Special Issue for the 31st European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2021) Athens 11-14 July 2021

[Joana Matos Dias <joana@fe.uc.pt>]

    Call for Papers

Operations Research for Health Care (ORHC, Elsevier)

Special Issue for the 31^st European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2021)

Athens 11-14 July 2021

“EURO 2021-Innovative approaches for emerging challenges in health services and care”

Guest Editors: Joana Dias, Ettore Lanzarone, Fermín Mallor

The special issue for the 31^st European Conference on Operational Research (EURO) 2021 held in Athens, Greece, is aiming at collecting high quality papers focused on “Innovative approaches for emerging challenges in health services and care” for the Elsevier journal Operations Research for Health Care (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/operations-research-for-health-care).

Operations Research for Health Care focuses on the development and use of operations research and analytics in health and health care. The journal publishes high-quality operations research and/or analytics approaches to problems in health care from researchers and practitioners.

We encourage contributions with new and innovative approaches in the scope of operations research and analytics as well as emerging challenges in all areas of health services and health care including:

• Public Health Policy
• Performance Evaluation
• Screening and Prevention
• Health Care Logistics and Supply Chains
• Health Care Resource and Capacity Planning
• Location Problems in Health Care
• Health Care Delivery
• Workforce Scheduling
• Patient and Appointment Scheduling
• Operating Room Planning and Scheduling
• Emergency Medical Systems
• Home Care and Long-Term Care
• Disease Modeling and Policy
• Cancer Treatment Planning
• Infectious Diseases

We invite researchers to submit their work to this special issue as an opportunity for publishing in a high-quality journal. Submitted papers should fulfill the scope and adhere to the guidelines of the journal (journal’s homepage). All papers will be peer-reviewed in accordance with the journal’s typical standards. All papers that are deemed suitable for publication following the review process will be accepted for publication (in other words there is no maximum number of papers that will be accepted as part of this special issue). This call for papers is not limited to researchers who presented their work at EURO 2022, but every contribution related to the topic of the call is welcome.

Submissions

• Please submit your full papers for ORHC through https://www.editorialmanager.com/orhc/default.aspx
• Select the article type option for special issue from the drop-down menu “Special Issue: EURO 2021”.
• Deadline for special issue submissions is 1^st March 2022. The targeted date for publication is late 2022.

Guest editors

Joana Dias

INESC Coimbra, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

joana@fe.uc.pt

Ettore Lanzarone

Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology, National Research Council of Italy, Italy

ettore.lanzarone@cnr.it

Fermín Mallor

Institute of Smart Cities, Public University of Navarra, Spain

mallor@unavarra.es

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