%0 Journal Article
%T A model and a heuristic for the primary health care coverage planning problem in portugal: application to "Cova da Beira" case
%A Monteiro
%A Rog¨¦rio A . F.
%A Pascoal
%A Ant¨®nio J.
%J Investiga£¿£¿o Operacional
%D 2005
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this communication presents an attempt in order to help on the planning of a primary health care delivery system in portugal. the research was conducted in order to get the optimal location and "districting" of hierarchical facilities in a network system. a linear integer multiobjective model is presented, considering location-allocation theory and also demographic evolution, as well as coherent structure. a metaheuristic solution method is provided. the model and the metaheuristic was applied to a set of instances and "cova da beira" case.
%K integer programming
%K demographic models
%K hierarchical location-allocation models
%K hierarchical location-delivery models
%K multi-heuristic methods.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-51612005000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en