Outcomes and Costs of Selected Preventive Health Maintenance Programs

Preventive-maintenance policy for leased products under various maintenance costs

This paper investigates the effects of preventive-maintenance cost functions on the optimal preventive-maintenance policy for a leased product with Weibull life-time distribution. During the lease period, any product failures are rectified by minimal repairs and may incur a penalty to the lessor, if the time duration for performing a minimal repair exceeds a pre-specified time limit. To reduce ...

Health Production Function for Preventive Health Programs

Production function studies have mainly been directed at the formal health care sector, in particular hospitals. Health production function relating medical and/or non-medical health inputs to good health, however, have not been intensively investigated. This paper explores the possibility of employing a health production function to examine the relationship between preventive health programs a...

Preventive maintenance scheduling of multi-component systems with interval costs

We introduce the preventive maintenance scheduling problem with interval costs (PMSPIC), which is to schedule preventive maintenance (PM) of the components of a system over a finite and discretized time horizon, given a common set-up cost and component costs dependent on the lengths of the maintenance intervals. We present a 0-1 integer linear programming (0-1 ILP) model for the PMSPIC; the mod...

Good Health and Low Costs: Why the PPACA's Preventive Care Provisions May Not Produce Expected Outcomes

Alcohol, nutrition and health maintenance: selected aspects.

In view of the developments in health care relating to the increased prevalence and incidence of chronic diseases and the continuing increase in health-care expenditure, more attention should be paid to health maintenance and disease prevention. Any strategy that can influence health maintenance is of interest, especially lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise or stress control. Alcohol ...