A Health Care Systems Model for Nonmetropolitan Areas
提出一个医疗系统模型，可分析多种服务并考虑空间和费用因素，通过混合整数线性规划最小化几种合理的目标函数，并进行了敏感性分析。
Abstract A health systems model allowing analysis of multiple services including spatial and monetary considerations is presented. Several behaviorally reasonable objective functions reflecting possible goals of the health planner are minimized using mixed integer linear programming. Under the different objective functions, the values of these functions increased little from their optimal value. Sensitivity analysis showed the solution to be quite sensitive to assumptions about migration and treatment practices while birth rates and travel costs have less impact. Use of the model is aided by health planners' use of data at their disposal.