Paper Info
Title
An integrated approach to multi-criteria-based health care facility location planning
Abstract
Optimal location of health care facilities is critical to the success of health care services. Given its importance, this is an active research topic in health informatics, operational research and GIS. This paper presents an integrated approach to health care facility planning whereby the methods from three research topics are combined. The integrated approach is applied in order to solve preventive health care facility location planning problems. In this approach, a new health accessibility estimation method is developed in order to capture the current characteristics of preventive health care services. Based on this, the preventive health care facility location planning problem is formalized as a multi-criteria facility location model. A new algorithm is proposed in order to solve the model. Experiments on synthetic datasets and on the Alberta breast cancer screening program data are conducted and the results support our analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-28320-8_36
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Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-criteria-based health care facility,health care service,location planning problem,preventive health care facility,integrated approach,multi-criteria facility location model,preventive health care service,health care facility planning,health informatics,new health accessibility estimation,health care facility
Health care,HRHIS,Engineering management,Computer science,Heuristic (computer science),Breast cancer screening,Facility location problem,Artificial intelligence,Health informatics,Machine learning,Management science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Gu100.34
Baijie Wang2403.38
Xin Wang363867.81