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Operations Research and Health Care Policy (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Operations Research and Health Care Policy (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 190
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Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions
and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face.
Indeed, a growing body of literature on health policy analysis,
based on operations research methods, has emerged to address the
problems mentioned above and several others. The research in this
field is often multi-disciplinary, being conducted by teams that
include not only operations researchers but also clinicians,
economists and policy analysts. The research is also often very
applied, focusing on a specific question driven by a decision-maker
and many times yielding a tool to assist in future decisions. The
goal of this volume was to bring together a group of papers by
leading experts that could showcase the current state of the field
of operations research applied to health-care policy. There are 18
chapters that illustrate the breadth of this field. The chapters
use a variety of techniques, including classical operations
research tools, such as optimization, queuing theory, and discrete
event simulation, as well as statistics, epidemic models and
decision-analytic models. The book spans the field and includes
work that ranges from highly conceptual to highly applied. An
example of the former is the chapter by Kimmel and Schackman on
building policy models, and an example of the latter is the chapter
by Coyle and colleagues on developing a Markov model for use by an
organization in Ontario that makes recommendations about the
funding of new drugs. The book also includes a mix of review
chapters, such as the chapter by Hutton on public health response
to influenza outbreaks, and original research, such as the paper by
Blake and colleagues analyzing a decision by Canadian Blood
Services to consolidate services. This volume could provide an
excellent introduction to the field of operations research applied
to health-care policy, and it could also serve as an introduction
to new areas for researchers already familiar with the topic. The
book is divided into six sections. The first section contains two
chapters that describe several different applications of operations
research in health policy and provide an excellent overview of the
field. Sections 2 to 4 present policy models in three focused
areas. Section 5 contains two chapters on conceptualizing and
building policy models. The book concludes in Section 6 with two
chapters describing work that was done with policy-makers and
presenting insights gained from working directly with
policy-makers.
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