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Modeling time allocation for prevention in primary care

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  • Evrim Güneş

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This paper discusses the problem of allocating time for prevention at the primary care level, focusing on a general practitioner (GP) practice. The basic trade-off is between improved state of the health of the population, which translates into less demand for the GP services, and a decreased capacity for curative services, which translates into increased congestion. The problem of how much time to devote to prevention is modeled as a non-linear optimization problem. As an extension of the problem, selection of preventive activities to perform among recommended alternatives is modeled using a knapsack formulation, and its application is illustrated with a numerical example. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2009

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  • Evrim Güneş, 2009. "Modeling time allocation for prevention in primary care," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 17(3), pages 359-380, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:cejnor:v:17:y:2009:i:3:p:359-380
    DOI: 10.1007/s10100-009-0094-2
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