Improving accessibility to rural health services: The maximal covering network improvement problem

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 102-110

  Murawski, Lisa ^a   Church, Richard L ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Barbara ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Infrastructure; Network design; Optimization; Planning

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH SERVICES; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LOCATION DECISION; LOCATION THEORY; LOCATION-ALLOCATION MODEL; NETWORK DESIGN; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; RURAL AREA;

EID: 59749092118     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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