TY - GEN
T1 - Improving health care access by optimizing the allocation network of community health centers
AU - Song, Jie
AU - Li, Binfeng
AU - Yang, Yao
AU - Wu, Su
AU - Griffin, Paul
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - As the community health care plays an important role in improving the health care equality and efficiency nowadays, It is one of the targets of the Health Care reform to establish a well distributed geographical- community health network in China. In this paper, taking Haidian District in Beijing City as an example, the CHCs locations as well as the service allocation problem is solved by using an integer linear mathematical programming model. The results show that the optimization of the CHCs network could improve the community health care access while reducing the cost per encounter under the government's budget, which makes the health care resource allocation more efficient. The decision making of government policy makers could also be well supported by the model.
AB - As the community health care plays an important role in improving the health care equality and efficiency nowadays, It is one of the targets of the Health Care reform to establish a well distributed geographical- community health network in China. In this paper, taking Haidian District in Beijing City as an example, the CHCs locations as well as the service allocation problem is solved by using an integer linear mathematical programming model. The results show that the optimization of the CHCs network could improve the community health care access while reducing the cost per encounter under the government's budget, which makes the health care resource allocation more efficient. The decision making of government policy makers could also be well supported by the model.
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U2 - 10.1109/SOLI.2008.4686532
DO - 10.1109/SOLI.2008.4686532
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58149123801
SN - 9781424420131
T3 - Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
SP - 933
EP - 938
BT - Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, IEEE/SOLI 2008
Y2 - 12 October 2008 through 15 October 2008
ER -