Factors impacting humanitarian operations in healthcare during life-threatening pandemics

The aims of this paper are to 'identify', analyze', and categorize' the factors impacting humanitarian activities in healthcare during life-threatening pandemics like COVID-19 using Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM). Nine humanitarian operation factors have been identified for healthcare during a life-threatening pandemic like COVID-19. The study states that the key factors are resource shortages, external factors, and a shortage of medical and non-medical specialists. The study focused primarily on humanitarian operations characteristics for the healthcare sector. The present study will assist key stakeholders and academics in gaining a better knowledge of the factors that impact humanitarian healthcare operations during life-threatening pandemics like COVID-19. The study analyses the interrelationships among humanitarian operations factors using humanitarian operations during life-threatening pandemics. During life-threatening, which is a novel attempt in the subject of this sector.