Dynamic changes and improvement paths of China’s emergency logistics response capabilities under public emergencies—research based on the entropy weight TOPSIS method

作者：Heng Chen, Yuan Guo, Xianglong Lin, Xianchao Qi · 发表于：Frontiers in Public Health · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.3389/fpubh.2024.1397747 · 被引用次数：14 · 研究领域：Facility Location and Emergency Management、Disaster Management and Resilience、Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Introduction: Due to global industrialization and urbanization, natural disasters, accidents, and public health emergencies happen frequently. These events cause significant loss of life and property damage to countries worldwide. In the context of frequent public emergencies, enhancing emergency logistics response capabilities is crucial, ensuring rapid supply of rescue materials and support for rescue personnel, thereby saving lives and reducing economic losses. Methods: In order to identify the changes and enhancement paths of the emergency logistics response capability of Chinese regions under the shocks of public emergencies, this paper innovatively constructs emergency logistics response capability measurement indicators. This paper uses the entropy weight TOPSIS method and panel quantile regression model to quantify the change and enhancement paths of China's regional emergency logistics response capability under different events. Results: It is found that: (1) The gap in emergency logistics response capability among Chinese regions is widening, with the internal difference in the eastern region higher than that in the west, while the difference in the central region is relatively low. (2) China's emergency management department can effectively transform social logistics into emergency logistics, thereby promoting the improvement of emergency logistics response capabilities. (3) Sudden geological disasters break through the limits of social logistics resources when the...