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Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration
Stephen J Duckett
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Description for Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration
Paperback. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 355.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
167
Condition
New
Number of Pages
167
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540171607
SKU
V9783540171607
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