A biobjective hierarchical location-allocation approach for the regionalization of maternal-neonatal care

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2022-02-01

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Karakaya, Sakir
Meral, Fatma Sedef

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This study proposes a biobjective location-allocation model for the regionalization of maternal-neonatal care to increase both accessibility and cost-efficiency by minimizing total transportation costs to public in accessing services and total service costs to government simultaneously. The model is characterized by a three-level successively inclusive hierarchy with an integrated flow and bidirectional referrals. Since it is difficult to solve for the optimum in a reasonable time, three heuristics are developed: top-down heuristic, novel top-down heuristic, and Lagrangean relaxation. A significant result obtained from the computational study is that at least one of the heuristics provides high-quality solutions in reasonable computational time for any level of the policy variable in weighting the two objectives. To demonstrate its practicality, the proposed hierarchical locationallocation model is applied to a case study based on the southeastern Anatolian region of Turkey.

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Maternal-neonatal, Health care, Hierarchical location-allocation, p-median, Top-down heuristic, Lagrangean relaxation, PERINATAL FACILITIES, SERVICE NETWORKS, MODEL, DECOMPOSITION, MUNICIPALITY, HOSPITALS, DESIGN

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102247

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101093

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Article

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S. Karakaya and F. S. Meral, “A biobjective hierarchical location-allocation approach for the regionalization of maternal-neonatal care,” SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES, vol. 79, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102247.