An exact Method for Stochastic Maximal Covering Problem of Preventive Healthcare Facilities

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Yazd University

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Effective preventive healthcare services have a significant role in reducing fatality and medical expenses in all human societies and the level of accessibility of customers to these services can be considered as a measure of their efficiency and effectiveness. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a service network design model of preventive healthcare facilities with the principal objective of maximizing participation in the offered services. While considering utility constraints and incorporating demand elasticity of customers due to travel distance and congestion delays, optimal number, locations and capacities of facilities as well as customer assignment o facilities are determined. First, the primary nonlinear integer program is transformed, then the linearized model is solved by developing an exact algorithm. Computational results show that large-sized instances can be solved in a reasonable amount of time. An illustrative case study of network of hospitals in Shiraz, Iran, is used to demonstrate the model and the managerial insights are discussed.

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  • Receive Date: 17 July 2016
  • Revise Date: 09 October 2016
  • Accept Date: 07 November 2016

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