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Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Stephen J. Duckett

    1. Health Department Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics (LNMED, volume 31)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-iv
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 1-9

  3. Inventories

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 10-43

  4. Queuing

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 44-68

  5. Simulation

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 69-91

  6. Allocation

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 93-114

  7. Competition

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 115-142

  8. Search

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 143-159

  9. Conclusion

    • Stephen J. Duckett
    Pages 160-165

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 167-167
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About this book

Operations research aims to assist managers faced with problems of coordinating activities; improving the quality of care of services delivered; making optimal resource allocation decisions and generally, managing services and institutions. Operations research (or O.R.) was originally developed in response to the problems of the second World War. It was characterised then by a unifying and clear objective; clear problems that had to be solved and the use of inter-disciplinary teams to analyse and solve identified problems. This analysis often drew on mathematical techniques. After the war, operations research moved in two separate but related directions. In England, the emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches and problem solving teams remained. The operations researcher still used mathematical techniques but these were not systematised into a volume of standard formulae. The emphasis of operations research was on the approach not the tools used (see, for example, Luckman & Stringer, 1974; also Luck, Luckman, Smith & Stringer 1971; and McLachlan, 1975). In the United States, the emphasis was placed on the use of mathematical techniques. Operations research became a mathematically based science relying on standardised models (e. g. queuing, allocation) and formulae. This approach was facilitated by the availability of computers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Health Department Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

    Stephen J. Duckett

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration

  • Authors: Stephen J. Duckett

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93343-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-17160-7Published: 20 May 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-93343-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-7788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 167

  • Topics: Health Informatics

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