Affecting Factors on Disaster Supply Chains Agility in Health Sector

Disaster supply chains, due to the high level of the uncertainty, are one of the environments needs special attention for agility. The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting the relief supply chains agility in health sector through using factor analysis. The Population of Present study included 138 health services management professionals, the disaster managers and experts from the Red Crescent Society and the medical emergency management centers throughout the country. Researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. Validity of questionnaire was checked based on expert opinion and its reliability was measured through Pearson's Correlation and internal consistency coefficient. The results of Pearson's Correlation and Cronbach's alpha were 0.99 and 0.98 respectively. The data were analyzed using the SPSS version 16 software. In this study 49 variables with Eigen value more than 2 and with factorloadings more than 0/6 were detected as the factors affecting the relief supply chains in health sector.The most amount of correlation with the factor of agility were respectively related to rapid determination of the families need with factor loading 0/93, using an emergency item catalogue according to event with 0/938 and according to area with 0/928,availability of trained experts with 0/919 and communication with multiple distribution centers with factor loading 0/918. The high correlation between the agility and variables such as swiftdetermination of needs, using the emergency item catalogue, availability of trained experts and communication with multiple distribution centers suggests that the authorities of relief organizations should pay attention to the formation and training of the assessment teams, strengthen role of knowledge management, empowerment and applying the principles of supply chain management to enhance the response during of disaster.