Optimal location of public health centres which provide free and paid services

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dc.contributor.authorMarianov, V
dc.contributor.authorTaborga, P
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T12:07:16Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T12:07:16Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractA model and a heuristic are presented for finding the most effective location of public health centres providing non-vital services in competition with existing private health centres. While private centres provide only services to customers who can pay for them, public centres provide both paid services to affluent customers, and subsidised services to customers belonging to low-income groups (a hierarchical structure). While low-income customers are assigned to fixed public centres, high-income customers can choose which centre to patronise. To find the solution of this problem, the equilibrium between maximum coverage of low-income population (within a pre-specified distance), and an adequate capture of high-income population must be found. Thus, in the public service, the revenues obtained from paid services are used to partly cover the costs of the subsidised services, and the number of centres that can be located depends on how many high-income clients can be captured. Capture of a high-income client happens when a public centre is located closer to the client than any of the existing private centres. Computational experience with optimal, as well as special heuristic, methods for solving this problem is described.
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2024-05-02
dc.format.extent10 páginas
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/sj.jors.2601103
dc.identifier.issn0160-5682
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jors.2601103
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/76263
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000167631800003
dc.information.autorucIngeniería;Marianov V;S/I;99349
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido parcial
dc.pagina.final400
dc.pagina.inicio391
dc.publisherNATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
dc.revistaJOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectlocation
dc.subjecthealth services
dc.subjectcompetition
dc.subjectpublic services
dc.subjectheuristics
dc.subjectCOMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
dc.subjectMAXIMUM-CAPTURE
dc.subjectMODELS
dc.titleOptimal location of public health centres which provide free and paid services
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen52
sipa.codpersvinculados99349
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.indexScopus
sipa.trazabilidadCarga SIPA;09-01-2024
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