Optimization of preventive health care facility locations

Optimization of preventive health care facility locations

BACKGROUND Preventive health care programs can save lives and contribute to a better quality of life by diagnosing serious medical conditions early. The Preventive Health Care Facility Location (PHCFL) problem is to identify optimal locations for preventive health care facilities so as to maximize participation. When identifying locations for preventive health care facilities, we need to consid...

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Letter to Editor

Spatial optimization of residential care facility locations in Beijing, China: maximum equity in accessibility

BACKGROUND The residential care system is rapidly developing and plays an increasingly important role in care for the elderly in Beijing. A noticeable disparity in the accessibility to existing residential care facilities, however, is demonstrated in existing studies. The spatial optimization of residential care facility (RCF) locations is urgently needed to promote equal access to residential ...

[Controversies in preventive health care. III. Juvenile health care].

Seismic Resilience of a Health care facility

This paper explains the fundamental concepts of resilience proposing a unified terminology and establishing a common frame of reference for quantitative evaluation of such seismic resilience. The evaluation is based on a non-dimensional analytical function based on loss recovery within a “recovery period”. Distinction is made between direct and indirect losses. The path to recovery is expressed...