Artikel,
A system to define and allocate health care resources on a territory to improve the life quality of the populations in developing countries.
Computers and biomedical research, an international journal, 30 (5): 379--402 (Oktober 1997)
Zusammenfassung
In this paper the health resource allocation problem is discussed. An object-oriented system is proposed and its implemented prototype is illustrated. It consists of two parts: a Geographical Information System, which is able to acquire and store both geographical and social-epidemiological information (including the resource distribution on that territory), and a Decision Support System, able to decide, using optimization algorithms, the new resource allocation in order to obtain a quasi-optimal solution for the cost/benefit ratio minimization problem, after having fixed the goal (e.g., the decrease of the incidence of a given disease) and constraints (e.g., a fixed budget, a given set of available resources, etc.). The object-oriented database which is part of the system can simulate and store different scenarios, depending on the different goals and constraints defined in input, by means of a user friendly interface.
Tags
- administrati,humans,management
- algorithms,cholera,cholera:
- care
- computer-assisted
- computer-assisted,disease
- control,epidemiologic
- costs,health
- countries,diagnosis,
- display,decision
- dynamics,quality
- economics,disease
- epidemiology,data
- information
- life,therapy,
- methods,health
- of
- organization
- outbreaks,disease
- outbreaks:
- prevention
- rationing,health
- rationing:
- statistical,nicaragua,population
- support
- systems,models,
- techniques,decision
- trees,developing
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