Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications

by Margaret L. Brandeau

Book Overview

In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. Policy makers and health care providers must determine how to provide the most effective health care to citizens using the limited resources that are available. This chapter describes current and future challenges in the delivery of health care, and outlines the role that operations research (OR) models can play in helping to solve those problems. The chapter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402076290
• ISBN13: 9781402076299
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 874 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"