Essay On Supply Chain In Nursing

TACKLING SUPPLY CHAIN BOTTLENECKS OF ESSENTIAL DRUGS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CENTERS: A CASE OF EASTERN UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA Mr. Vinaytosh Mishra & Dr. Cherian Samuel

The reports(which reports?) have indicated that there are structural supply chain constraints in the supply of essential drugs in India hence calling for interventions and policy direction. Government’s effort to improve drug access and availability has been too late and too little. A cross sectional survey is planned on 195 respondents in four districts of eastern U.P. Structural bottlenecks at each stage of the supply chain is planned to be identified. The sampling method used for the research is convenience and method used is factor analysis. Result can help us in identifying bottleneck in supply chain of medicine in primary health centres. Recommendations will provide guidelines for policy interventions aimed at strengthening programmes at local governments, investing resources in collaborative services, training staff in procurement best practices, and logistical management.

Keywords: logistic management, supply chain, forecasting, bottleneck

Introduction

Governments world over, in a bid to have a healthy population and wealthy nations, have continued to strive to ensure that supply chains of essential drugs are effective and efficient for improved health care. This is

The main applications of factor analytic techniques are: (1) to reduce the number of variables and (2) to detect structure in the relationships between variables, that is to classify variables. Therefore, factor analysis is applied as a data reduction or structure detection method (the term factor analysis was first introduced by Thurstone, 1931) .Factor analysis attempts to represent a set of observed variables X1, X2 …. Xn in terms of a number of 'common' factors plus a factor which is unique to each variable