A multi-period multi-criteria districting problem applied to primary care scheme with gradual assignment

Yanık, Seda and Kalcsics, Joerg and Nickel, Stefan and Bozkaya, Burçin (2019) A multi-period multi-criteria districting problem applied to primary care scheme with gradual assignment. International Transactions in Operational Research, 26 (5). pp. 1676-1697. ISSN 0969-6016 (Print) 1475-3995 (Online)

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Abstract

We present a modeling and optimization approach for the planning of primary healthcare services in order to efficiently direct patient admissions to general practitioners (GP) and to leverage the capacity of the healthcare system. We propose a multi-period multi-criteria districting model for the problem of designing GP districts in the presence of six criteria: workload balance, capacity, accessibility, compactness, income equity, and district similarity. We combine the last three criteria into a single objective function and formulate the problem as a mixed integer program with binary location decision variables and relaxed allocation decision variables for gradual assignments. To assess the usefulness of the model, we test it on real-case scenarios in Istanbul, Turkey.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: health service; integer programming; multi-criteria; multi-period; location; districting
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Operations Management and Information Systems
Depositing User: Burçin Bozkaya
Date Deposited: 08 Aug 2019 15:57
Last Modified: 08 Jun 2023 15:23
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/37243

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