Location of health care facilities: An analytical approach
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TL;DR
A planning framework is presented to aid the health planner in the formulation of health facility location decisions using models developed for the location of a generalized health facility system in a region in a manner that the selected criteria are optimized.
Abstract
The problem of health facilities location is explored under a mathematical optimization approach. Several models are developed for the location of a generalized health facility system in a region in a manner that the selected criteria are optimized. Locational criteria are structured as a hierarchy of social, economic and political attributes and defined analytically using economic and utility theory. A planning framework, based on the models developed, is presented to aid the health planner in the formulation of health facility location decisions.