Modeling health care facility location for moving population groups

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2154-2161

  Ndiaye, Malick ^a   Alfares, Hesham ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Facility location; Preventive health care services; Seasonal demand

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC POLICY;

FACILITY LOCATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES; PUBLIC SERVICES; SEASONAL DEMAND;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 36348993025     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.09.025     Document Type: Article

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