BACKGROUND Provision of quality emergency obstetric care relies upon the presence of skilled health attendants working in an environment where drugs and medical supplies are available when needed and in adequate quantity and of assured quality. This study aimed to describe the experience of rural health facility managers in ensuring the timely availability of drugs and medical supplies for emer...

The Uncapacitated Facility Location (UFL) problem is one of the most famous and most studied problems in the Operations Research literature. Given a set of potential facility locations, and a set of customers, the goal is to find a subset of facility locations to open, and to allocate each customer to open facilities, so that the facility opening plus customer allocation costs are minimized. In...

the lack of health human resources is a global issue. china also faces the same issue, in addition to the equity of human resources allocation. with the launch of new healthcare reform of china in 2009, have the issues been improved? relevant data from china health statistical yearbook and a qualitative study show that the unequal allocation of health human resources is getting worse than before.

Healthcare regulation plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and accessibility of healthcare services Canada. This article provides an overview regulatory landscape Canada, focusing on federal provincial/territorial regulations. The level regulations, overseen by Health encompass drug medical device health information privacy security, food safety nutrition Provincial territorial implemen...

O ver the past 20 years or more, use of meta-analysis and establishment of clinical guidelines for stroke have provided a strong evidence base for performance measurement. Performance measurement, defined as the evaluation of organizational or clinical practice activities and outcomes against agreed standards, 1,2 has been used to identify care gaps. With the associated development in health se...

BACKGROUND To ascertain equity in financing for essential medicines and health supplies (EMHS) in Uganda, this paper explores the relationships among government funding allocations for EMHS, patient load, and medicines availability across facilities at different levels of care. METHODS We collected data on EMHS allocations and availability of selected vital medicines from 43 purposively sampl...

This article proposes a novel Pareto-based multiobjective meta-heuristic algorithm named non-dominated ranking genetic algorithm (NRGA) to solve multi-facility location-allocation problem. In NRGA, a fitness value representing rank is assigned to each individual of the population. Moreover, two features ranked based roulette wheel selection including select the fronts and choose solutions from ...