Health post location and resource allocation models for community oriented primary care
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University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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The aim of this project is to develop operation research models to determine the optimal location of health post in a community by taking both financial considerations and presented demand into account.
A model is developed to allocate health care workers to these health posts as well as to the individual households in the community.
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Thesis (BEng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering), Operations research, Community health worker (CHW), Set covering models, Resource allocation models, Healthcare