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A GIS-Based Decision Support System for Locating Primary Care Facilities

Authors : Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Daniel Rockemann, Jost Steinhäuser

Published in: Exploring Services Science

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Keeping up a high level of primary care services for a whole country or even a federal state is a very challenging task due to the demographic change and many other reasons, also for Germany. In the future it is expected that even more general practitioners (GP) are necessary to cover close to come healthcare. Therefore, an efficient use of resources and an optimized planning is crucial. Mathematical models and approaches can help facing the challenge by determining optimal locations for practices, shift schedules or appointment strategies, for example. To use these in practice, decision support systems (DSS) are necessary that link the input data to the approaches and display the results. The outline of such a decision support system for optimally locating GP practices is presented in this paper.

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Metadata
Title
A GIS-Based Decision Support System for Locating Primary Care Facilities
Authors
Melanie Reuter-Oppermann
Daniel Rockemann
Jost Steinhäuser
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Exploring Services Science

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-56924-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-56925-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56925-3_17

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