Strategic planning of horizontal and vertical health programming

The paper considers a health programme from a policy perspective. This programme is specified for certain subgroups of a population, which can be treated in varyng intensities. Its effectiveness depends on resources spent. The paper takes into account that several resource categories may exist. The group-specifie subproblems are modelled as stochastic decision chains with continuous action space, piecewise linear, monotone, convex cost functions and finite horizon. This paper develops a LP-model for efficient, simultaneous resource allocation.