Healthcare facility (HCF) location has attracted considerable attention from the operations
research community over nearly four decades as one of the most important strategic issues …

Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

The inequity of access to healthcare services is still one of the most long-lasting problems
confronted by worldwide countries. Under such context where maldistributed healthcare …

Background Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) concepts, models and tools have been
used increasingly in health technology assessment (HTA), with several studies pointing out …

In outpatient healthcare clinics, capacity, patient flow, and scheduling are rarely managed in
an integrated fashion, so a question of interest is whether clinic performance can be …

Various types of healthcare waste (or medical waste) generated by urban healthcare
activities have increased due to the expansion of urban population and medical needs. As …

The healthcare system is no stranger to resource challenges in the face of unlimited demand
to fulfill healthcare objectives of satisfying patients, maintaining service quality, and …

Health care planners in countries with a system based on a National Health Service (NHS)
have to make decisions on where to locate and how to organize hospital services, so as to …

In this chapter, we discuss facility location problems arising in the context of healthcare. We
concentrate on three main areas. The most classical one is healthcare facility location which …

As is often the case in healthcare provision, public services may offer facilities at a hierarchy
of levels in different locations, ranging from basic to specialised levels of care. In addition to …