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Although not a common practice, proper planning of health care networks should consider the attainment of health gains and the impact of inter-sector health policy options. This study proposes a multi-objective stochastic model to support location-allocation decisions in the long-term care sector that integrates these aspects. The model aims at maximizing expected health gains and minimizing expected costs, using the augmented (-constraint method for analyzing this trade-off. The impact of inter-sector policy options on this trade-off is explored. A case study in Portugal is analyzed.
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Cardoso, T., Oliveira, M.D., Barbosa-Póvoa, A.P., Nickel, S. (2015). Modeling Inter-sector Health Policy Options and Health Gains in a Long-term Care Network: A Location-Allocation Stochastic Planning Approach. In: Póvoa, A., de Miranda, J. (eds) Operations Research and Big Data. Studies in Big Data, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_4
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