Location of preventive health care facilities

Location of preventive health care facilities

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Article ID: iaor20031453
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 110
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 123
End Page Number: 132
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Journal: Annals of Operations Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: location
Abstract:

This paper is focused on the problem of locating preventive health care facilities. The aim is to maximize participation to prevention programs. We assume that distance is a major determinant of participation and people would go to the closest facility for preventive health care. Each facility is required to have more than a predetermined number of clients because of the direct relationship between volume and quality of preventive services. We provide a mathematical formulation and present alternative solution approaches for this new location problem. We report on computational performance of the proposed methods in locating public health centers in Fulton County, Georgia and mammography screening centers in Montreal, Quebec.

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