A quasihierarchical location-allocation model for primary health care planning

Tien, James M.; El-Tell, K.

doi:10.1109/tsmc.1984.6313229

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“…Regional planning is one of the special cases in developing countries where location decisions, commonly being made by local officials and based on political, economic, and cultural factors, can result in a placement of facilities that is far from optimal in terms of geographical accessibility [39]. Various studies [40][41][42][43][44] have shown the effectiveness of applying location analysis for health service development planning in developing nations. Two direct studies which explicitly addressed the problem of locating health facilities and network design were presented by Melkote [10] and Cocking [14].…”

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Modeling the budget-constrained dynamic uncapacitated facility location–network design problem and solving it via two efficient heuristics: A case study of health care

Ghaderi

Jabalameli

2013

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

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a b s t r a c tThis paper presents a model for the budget-constrained dynamic (multi-period) uncapacitated facility location-network design problem (DUFLNDP). This problem is concerned with the determination of the optimal locations of facilities and the design of the underlying network simultaneously in which there is a budget constraint on investment for opening the facilities and constructing (activating) links for each time period during the planning horizon. The objective is to minimize the total travel costs for customers and operating costs for facilities and network links. Furthermore, a greedy heuristic and a fixand-optimize heuristic based on simulated annealing and exact methods (Branch & Bound and cutting methods) are proposed to solve the model. The performance of the proposed algorithms were tested on extensive randomly generated instances and compared with the CPLEX solver. The budget-constrained DU FLNDP has a lot of important applications which as one of them, the accessibility of health care facilities in Illam Province of Iran is investigated.

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Modeling the budget-constrained dynamic uncapacitated facility location–network design problem and solving it via two efficient heuristics: A case study of health care

Ghaderi

Jabalameli

2013

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

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“…In this area, regional planning is a special problem in developing countries where location decisions, commonly being made by local officials and based on political, economic, and cultural factors, can result in a placement of facilities that is far from optimal in terms of geographical accessibility (Cocking et al, 2006). The effectiveness of network design problems in healthcare services resulting in nation's development have been variously studied (Mehretu et al, 1983;Oppong, 1996;Rahman and Smith, 2000;Rushton, 1984;Tien and El-Tell, 1984;Ghaderi and Jabalameli, 2013;Mahar et al, 2011), where Ghaderi and Jabalameli (2013), Mahar et al (2011), andCocking (2008) directly addressed the problem of location and network design in the health problems. Ghaderi and Jabalameli (2013) presented a mixed integer model for the budget-constrained dynamic (multi-period) uncapacitated facility location-network design problem.…”

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Design of a bi-objective reliable healthcare network with finite capacity queue under service covering uncertainty

Mohammadi¹,

Dehbari

Vahdani

2014

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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“…Tien and El‐Tell (1984) developed and applied a zero–one integer programming model to primary health care system in Jordan.…”

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“…Farhat (1986) applied LP to an Iraqi state farm. Tien and El-Tell (1984) developed and applied a zero-one integer programming model to primary health care system in Jordan. Hasan and Osman (1996) developed an LP model to produce new aluminum billets of high quality by recycling aluminum scrap, which is generated from local industries in Kuwait.…”

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Operations research/management science in the Arab world: historical development

Yousef

2010

International Transactions in Operational Research

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This study aims to review the related literature on operations research (OR)/management science (MS) in the Arab world published during the last three decades. Owing to the nature of this study, an extensive survey of the related literature was conducted and inferences were drawn. The inferences drawn from the literature survey on OR/MS in the Arab world were first, there is a paucity of published real‐world applications of OR/MS. Second, there is a lack of published survey‐type studies in most Arab countries, except in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates. Third, the majority of published works on OR/MS were of a conceptual nature. A few papers concerned with OR/MS in the Arab world were published during the 1980s, with a special emphasis on conceptual issues rather than on applied or survey‐type studies. The 1990s witnessed an increased number of publications on both survey‐type and conceptual studies. Since 2000, the number of publications has increased substantially, mainly through conceptual studies. This study has a number of implications for both practitioners and researchers. Practitioners will be made aware of the applications of OR/MS in the Arab world and the type of problems that have been addressed. This, in turn, might motivate the decision makers and the managers to adopt OR/MS approaches in solving their organizations' problems. As a result, this might increase the usage of OR/MS in this part of the world. Researchers will be able to identify the OR/MS research areas that need more attention in the Arab world. The study mainly covers the studies that are written in English and indexed in non‐Arabic databases. Although the Arabic works were not surveyed exhaustively, the author reviewed and included some available OR/MS works written in Arabic. This study is considered as the first work of its type in surveying the scholarly publications pertaining to OR/MS in the Arab world since the 1980s.

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A quasihierarchical location-allocation model for primary health care planning

Cited by 27 publications

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Modeling the budget-constrained dynamic uncapacitated facility location–network design problem and solving it via two efficient heuristics: A case study of health care

Modeling the budget-constrained dynamic uncapacitated facility location–network design problem and solving it via two efficient heuristics: A case study of health care

Design of a bi-objective reliable healthcare network with finite capacity queue under service covering uncertainty

Operations research/management science in the Arab world: historical development

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