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Preventive healthcare facility location planning with quality-conscious clients
2020
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Pursuing the overarching goal of saving both lives and healthcare costs, we introduce an approach to increase the expected participation in a preventive healthcare program, e.g., breast cancer screening. In contrast to sick people who need urgent medical attention, the clients in preventive healthcare decide whether to go to a specific facility (if this maximizes their utility) or not to take part in the program. We consider clients' utility functions to include decision variables denoting the
doi:10.1007/s00291-020-00605-w
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