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A system to define and allocate health care resources on a territory to improve the life quality of the populations in developing countries.

F Ferri, E Pourabbas, M Rafanelli, and G Sindoni. Computers and biomedical research, an international journal 30(5):379--402 (October 1997)

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  timestamp = {2012-02-27T06:11:36.000+0100},
  title = {{A system to define and allocate health care resources on a territory to improve the life quality of the populations in developing countries.}},
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%A Sindoni, G
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%P 379--402
%T {A system to define and allocate health care resources on a territory to improve the life quality of the populations in developing countries.}
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%X 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.

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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.

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A system to define and allocate health care resources on a territory to improve the life quality of the populations in developing countries.

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