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Regional Planning of Primary Health Care Services
Medical Care, 1972services provided and the way in which the delivery system is organized. An ability to determine the factors influencing an individual's decision to seek care would be an important contribution to the management of primary care facilities and the removal of barriers that deny certain portions of a population access to care. An essential feature of this
W J, Abernathy, J R, Moore
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The Role of Operations Research in Regional Health Planning
Operations Research, 1974Operations-research workers have not met with much success in being accepted as integral members of regional-health-planning teams, owing in part to a lack of understanding by health planners of the skills the operations researcher has to offer and in part the analyst's inability to demonstrate that he can close the gap between theoretical modeling ...
Larry J. Shuman +2 more
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Addressing national and regional health needs: A framework for health planning
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 1992AbstractCompletion of the first decade since the Alma‐Ata Declaration of ‘health for all’ (1978) has led to numerous appraisals, in international forums, of progress achieved by the current primary health care strategy. Although this strategy appears to have contributed to improvements in selected health outcomes, changing circumstances in many ...
B F, Stanton, J D, Clemens, R E, Black
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A Multiobjective Model for Regional Planning of Health Facilities
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1979Presented herein is a multiobjective planning model for a regional health-facility system. The system consists of a regional center, intermediate and local hospitals, and health centers. This planning model is based on the maximization of the system effectiveness.
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Occupational health in the negev: A model for regional planning
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1989AbstractIn the Negev region of Israel, I tested a model approach to occupational health planning. This model included components assessing exposures, measuring adverse health outcomes, and evaluating health services.I analyzed employment survey data, compiled an exposure data base, and carried out site visits covering 10,707 employees (over 50% of the ...
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A Spatial-Allocation Model for Regional Health-Services Planning
Operations Research, 1972In planning for health services, the need arises to determine the location, capacity, and number of health centers for a geographically defined region. The present paper formulates this problem in a form convenient for solution and presents results from the model to clarify some important aspects of this allocation decision.
William J. Abernathy, John C. Hershey
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The Committed Perspective — Policy Principles for Regional Health Plans
New England Journal of Medicine, 2017As lawmakers debate the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, regional, nonprofit health plans that are committed to their communities — particularly ones closely aligned with provider organizations — must ask “What comes next?” and “How do we make it work?”
Ceci, Connolly, Thomas H, Lee
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Regional health promotion planning and monitoring
Health Education Journal, 1987HEALTH promotion has become the focus of much interest in the field of health service planning. Related to this, expectations have developed in terms of the performance of health education/pro motion services. There has been an ominous tend ency for these expectations to fail to recognise important developments in health promotion theory and practice ...
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Regional planning in rural Manitoba: a study of the ‘health’ of a prairie region
Applied Geography, 1992Abstract Regional planning has commonly been concerned with large units at the expense of small, and often treats these areas as more or less homogeneous entities, rather than as regions that might vary internally, in their economic and social well-being.
John Everitt, Kenneth Bessant
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A Quantitative Model to Plan Regional Health Facility Systems
Management Science, 1977This paper presents a quantitative planning model to determine the optimal characteristics (number, size and locations) of a regional health facility system. The system consists of a medical center, intermediate and local hospitals, and health centers. The quantitative model is based on the minimization of the total cost (sum of the transportation and
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