Healthcare Resilience Evaluation Using Novel Multi-criteria Method

The application of computational science methods and tools in healthcare is growing rapidly. These methods support decision-making and policy development. They are commonly used in decision support systems (DSSs) used in many fields. This paper presents a decision support system based on the newly developed SSP-SPOTIS (Strong Sustainable Paradigm based Stable Preference Ordering Towards Ideal Solution) method. The application of the proposed DSS is demonstrated in the example of assessing healthcare systems of selected countries concerning resilience to pandemic-type crisis phenomena. The developed method considers the strong sustainability paradigm by reducing linear compensation criteria with the possibility of its modeling. The research demonstrated the usefulness, reliability, and broad analytical opportunities of DSS based on SSP-SPOTIS in evaluation procedures focused on sustainability aspects considering a strong sustainability paradigm.