Mobile healthcare services in rural areas: An application with periodic location routing problem

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buir.contributor.authorKara, Bahar Yetiş
buir.contributor.orcidKara, Bahar Yetiş|0000-0001-8674-1165
dc.citation.epage910en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber3en_US
dc.citation.spage875en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber44en_US
dc.contributor.authorSavaşer, Sinem Kınay
dc.contributor.authorKara, Bahar Yetiş
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-25T12:59:14Z
dc.date.available2023-02-25T12:59:14Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-15
dc.departmentDepartment of Industrial Engineeringen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this study, we focus on the delivery of mobile healthcare services in rural areas, where doctors visit remote villages which do not have a healthcare facility nearby. The aim is to increase the accessibility of healthcare services for such population centers. We aim to determine the village assignments of the doctors, their monthly visit schedules and base hospitals where they start and end their tours. We model this as a periodic location routing problem and use the policies of Ministry of Health of Turkey as a basis for our mathematical formulation. These policies include the essential components of mobile healthcare services, namely, continuity of care and determining evenly distributed periodic visits. We determine the visit schedules, i.e. routes, of doctors endogenously while satisfying these policies. We also develop a heuristic algorithm based on a cluster first-route second approach and solve larger instances more effectively. The computational experiments support that this solution methodology can effectively find optimal or near-optimal solutions and improve the computational times significantly.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00291-022-00670-3en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/111740
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbHen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00291-022-00670-3en_US
dc.source.titleOR Spectrumen_US
dc.subjectCluster first route seconden_US
dc.subjectContinuity of careen_US
dc.subjectMobile healthcare servicesen_US
dc.subjectPeriodic location routingen_US
dc.subjectSchedulingen_US
dc.titleMobile healthcare services in rural areas: An application with periodic location routing problemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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