Techniques for defining geographic boundaries for health regions
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Techniques for defining geographic boundaries for health regions.
Many federal and state programs require the geographic partitioning of states into regions for health services planning, monitoring, and/or administration. A common consideration for such programs is that region boundaries should be drawn so as to maximize the proportion of the state’s population that receives health care services in its region of residence. Defining region boundaries thus may ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0038-0121
DOI: 10.1016/0038-0121(79)90013-2