TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dell'Ovo,Marta
AU  - Oppio,Alessandra
AU  - Capolongo,Stefano
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities: SitHealth Evaluation Tool 
T2  - PoliMI SpringerBriefs,
SN  - 9783030501730
AV  - R727.9 
U1  - 610.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Practice of medicine
KW  - Facility management
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Regional economics
KW  - Spatial economics
KW  - Urban geography
KW  - Practice and Hospital Management
KW  - Facility Management
KW  - Operations Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Regional/Spatial Science
KW  - Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
N2  - The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities. Supported by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), the approach provides comprehensive information on territory, taking into account the spatial dimensions. Due to the multiple criteria involved, site selection for urban facilities is a crucial topic in planning decision processes, especially for healthcare facilities. Healthcare provision policies generally fail to address the distribution of facilities within cities, entrusting decisions to various stakeholders. Moreover current evaluation tools focus on the intrinsic performances of healthcare structures, disregarding the extrinsic characteristics, namely those related to the location. Starting with a cross-disciplinary literature review, the book describes a multi-methodological approach for decision-making regarding the location of healthcare facilities, and presents an innovative evaluation tool that simultaneously considers functional, locational, environmental and economic issues, providing a comprehensive overview of the areas under investigation.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50173-0
ER  -