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Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, 31
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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.
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Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag
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Country of origin: |
Germany |
Series: |
Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, 31 |
Release date: |
May 1987 |
First published: |
1987 |
Authors: |
Stephen J. Duckett
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Dimensions: |
244 x 170 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
167 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-540-17160-7 |
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LSN: |
3-540-17160-6 |
Barcode: |
9783540171607 |
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