This work has been supported by FCT - Funda¸c˜ao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia
within the R&D Unit Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020 and UIDB/05757/2020.
Filipe Alves thanks the FCT for supporting its research with the PhD grant
SFRH/BD/143745/2019.
This work provides a systematic literature review based on
an up-to-date assessment of the concepts, procedures and operational
management in home health care (HHC). Worldwide, and especially in
Portugal, there is a growing demand for HHC services, whether health
or social, often supported by private or public institutions of social solidarity
or health. The methodology was developed to, in the first phase,
collect a set of potentially relevant articles, from which some journal papers
with a high degree of citation were analyzed. The searched databases
were Scopus and Web of Science. In a second phase, all identified documents
were pre-processed with a bibliometric analysis between 2010
and 2021 to support the current state of HHC. The main contributions
of this work are a summary update of the literature dealing with HHC
routing and scheduling management, some discussions on current past
and actual trends, and some future research directions.
