this study aimed at identifying components of the household health costs.this study was a qualitative research conducted in two main phases. the first phase consisted of interviews with sample households selected in eight provinces of iran. they were to identify components of the household health costs. in the second phase, components were determined as direct, indirect and intangible based on ...

BACKGROUND Substantial policy, communication and operational gaps exist between mental health services and the police for individuals with enduring mental health needs. AIMS To map and cost pathways through mental health and police services, and to model the cost impact of implementing key policy recommendations. METHOD Within a case-linkage study, we estimated 1-year individual-level healt...

Facility location (FL) is a well-researched problem in operational-research (Şahin Güvenç & Haldun, 2007), and is closely related to EBC. Given a set of N customers and M potential facilities to open, as well as costs sij for customer i to use facility j, and a facility setup cost cj associated with opening a facility j, we wish to find the set of facilities to open, as well as the assignments ...

The costs of operational risk refer to the capital needed to cover the losses generated by a firm’s ordinary activities. In this paper several capital allocation principles are examined to demonstrate how such principles can be used to distribute aggregated capital across the various constituents that generate operational risk. Proportional allocation, for example, allows a cost per unit to be ...

Financial and operational benchmarking data for family practice residency programs within the University of Washington Network were established for the year 2000. Data were systematically collected by standardized questionnaire, evaluated for quality and verified, and then analyzed. Revenues, expenses, faculty structures, productivity, and family practice center staffing models are reported, us...

The Pau Branco mine supplies two blast furnaces with iron ore lumps, and currently, charcoal consumption for pig iron production accounts for 47% of the blast furnaces’ operational cost. A geometallurgical model is presented to support an economic study considering reserve volumes, product quality, and operational costs based on the metallurgical performance of different iron ore typologies. Sa...

This article presents a practical tool for optimally scheduling wine grape harvesting operations taking into account both operational costs and grape quality. We solve a mixed-integer linear programming model to support harvest scheduling, labor allocation, and routing decisions. A quality loss function is used to represent wine quality reduction at each vineyard block due to premature or defer...