WITHIN THE TRADITIONAL framework of the physician-patient relationship, the primary concern of the physician is usually the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with a presenting problem. Underlying basic assumptions that are generally accepted are (a) responsible understanding by the patient of the medical advice given and (b) sufficient motivation for compliance with the physician's instructi...

Malaysia has seen tremendous growth in the standard of living and household per capita income. The demand for a more systematic and efficient planning has become increasingly more important, one of the keys to achieving a high standard in healthcare. In this paper, a Maximal Covering Location Problem (MCLP) is used to study the healthcare facilities of one of the districts in Malaysia. We addre...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality remains high in sub-Saharan Africa. Health facility intra-partum strategies with skilled birth attendance have been shown to be most effective to address maternal mortality. In Zambia, the health policy for pregnant women is to have facility childbirth, but less than half of the women utilize the facilities for delivery. 'Born before arrival' (BBA) describes childb...

Increasing e-commerce activity, competition for shorter delivery times, and innovations in transportation technologies have pushed the industry toward instant logistics. This paper studies a facility location online demand allocation problem applicable to logistics company expanding offer service using unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. The is decomposed into two stages. During planning stage,...

OBJECTIVE To explore the chronic disease services in Uganda: their level of utilisation, the total service costs and unit costs per visit. METHODS Full financial and economic cost data were collected from 12 facilities in two districts, from the provider's perspective. A combination of ingredients-based and step-down allocation costing approaches was used. The diseases under study were diabet...

In this paper we consider the problem of locating N new facilities with respect to M existing facilities in the plane and in the presence of polyhedral barriers. We assume that a barrier is a region where neither facility location nor traveling is permitted. For the resulting multi-dimensional mixed-integer optimization problem two different alternate location and allocation procedures are deve...

Scientific user facilities provide resources and support that enable scientists to conduct experiments or simulations pertinent to their respective research. Consequently, it is critical to have an informed understanding of the impact and contributions that these facilities have on scientific discoveries. Leveraging insight into scientific publications that acknowledge the use of these faciliti...

A distributed system is composed of various resources which have mutually complicated dependencies. The fact increases an importance of the dependency resolution facility which makes it possible to check if there is given dependency between resources such as a router, and to determine which resources have given dependencies with other resources. This paper addresses a CIM query facility for dep...