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A Quantitative Model to Plan Regional Health Facility Systems

Management Science, 1977
This 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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The Committed Perspective — Policy Principles for Regional Health Plans

New England Journal of Medicine, 2017
As 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 planning in rural Manitoba: a study of the ‘health’ of a prairie region

Applied Geography, 1992
Abstract 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.
Kenneth C. Bessant, John Everitt
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The times are changing: workforce planning, new health-care models and the need for interprofessional education in Australia

Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2019
Following a history of the Australian health system and funding models, we outline workforce issues, in particular, the lack of health professionals in regional locations.
J. Thistlethwaite, R. Dunston, Tagrid Yassine   +2 more
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Feasibility of input/output analysis for regional health planning

Social Science & Medicine. Part C: Medical Economics, 1978
Abstract Input/output analysis can provide an economic model of the health care system which is capable of characterizing financial flows, describing health system interrelationships and predicting the impacts of policy alternatives on the entire health care system.
Gary L. Gaumer, Michael S. Broida, Joel B. Cowen   +2 more
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Estimating the Health Benefits of a Proposed Regional Transportation Plan

Journal of Transport & Health, 2018
Highest Scoring Abstract: Practitioner Background The population of the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA) is projected to grow from 6.2 million people in 2001 to 9.6 million in 2031. Existing commute times are the country's highest with annual costs of congestion to reach $15 billion.
David L. Mowat, Charles Gardiner, Gayle E. Bursey, Brent Moloughney   +3 more
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Information Systems Planning for a Regional Health Board

1982
In 1979, the North Western Health Board prepared an administrative organisation and computer systems development plan, setting out the objectives, priorities and resource requirements for the development of a practical range of manual and computer systems in the areas of finance, personnel, patient administration and community care management.
Donal O’Shea, Terry Neill
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Formula Funding and Regional Planning of Health Services in Australia

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1985
groups and communities within Australia's scattered population has been problematic for more than a century. When modern scientific medicine was developing its present form, in the 1880s, Australia was composed of six self-governing colonies of the United Kingdom. Half of the population was dispersed in an agricultural and extractive economy supporting
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A PLAN FOR REGIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH CENTERS FOR THE GERIATRIC PATIENT

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1966
A rough plan is proposed which may facilitate the care of geriatric patients. The plan is to introduce pilot programs of geriatric regional centers attached to Veteran's Administration hospitals. Thus, at minimal cost, the problems of geriatric medicine would be under the supervision of our excellent university medical centers.
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Strategies for regional health planning in British Columbia

1982
In 1981/82 there was renewed interest in the concept of a regionalized form of health service delivery in British Columbia. A discussion paper which outlined a proposal for regionalizing those services funded directly by the Ministry of Health was circulated to the senior managers in the Ministry in August of that year.
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