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Operations research and health care: a handbook of methods and applications

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International series in Operations research & mana. sciencePublication details: Boston Kluwer 2004Description: 872 pISBN:
  • 1402076290
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1
Summary: In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. Policy makers and health care providers must determine how to provide the most effective health care to citizens using the limited resources that are available. This chapter describes current and future challenges in the delivery of health care, and outlines the role that operations research (OR) models can play in helping to solve those problems. The chapter concludes with an overview of this book-its intended audience, the areas covered, and a description of the subsequent chapters.
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In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. Policy makers and health care providers must determine how to provide the most effective health care to citizens using the limited resources that are available. This chapter describes current and future challenges in the delivery of health care, and outlines the role that operations research (OR) models can play in helping to solve those problems. The chapter concludes with an overview of this book-its intended audience, the areas covered, and a description of the subsequent chapters.

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