Scheduling mobile dental clinics: A heuristic approach considering fairness among school districts.

IF 2.3 3区 医学 Q2 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES Health Care Management Science Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2022-10-03 DOI:10.1007/s10729-022-09612-5
Ignacio A Sepúlveda, Maichel M Aguayo, Rodrigo De la Fuente, Guillermo Latorre-Núñez, Carlos Obreque, Camila Vásquez Orrego
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Mobile dental clinics (MDCs) are suitable solutions for servicing people living in rural and urban areas that require dental healthcare. MDCs can provide dental care to the most vulnerable high-school students. However, scheduling MDCs to visit patients is critical to developing efficient dental programs. Here, we study a mobile dental clinic scheduling problem that arises from the real-life logistics management challenge faced by a school-based mobile dental care program in Southern Chile. This problem involves scheduling MDCs to treat high-school students at public schools while considering a fairness constraint among districts. Schools are circumscribed into districts, and by program regulations, at least 50% of the students in each district must receive dental care during the first semester. Fairness prevents some districts from waiting more time to receive dental care than others. We model the problem as a parallel machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup costs and batch due dates and propose a mathematical model and a genetic algorithm-based solution to solve the problem. Our computational results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches in obtaining near-optimal solutions. Finally, dental program managers can use the methodologies presented in this work to schedule mobile dental clinics and improve their operations.

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安排流动牙科诊所:考虑学区公平性的启发式方法。
流动牙科诊所 (MDC) 是为需要牙科保健的城乡居民提供服务的合适解决方案。流动牙科诊所可以为最弱势的高中生提供牙科保健服务。然而,如何安排移动牙科诊所去看病对于开发高效的牙科项目至关重要。在此,我们研究了一个流动牙科诊所调度问题,该问题是智利南部一个学校流动牙科保健项目在现实生活中面临的后勤管理挑战。该问题涉及安排流动牙科诊所为公立学校的高中生提供治疗,同时考虑到各地区之间的公平性约束。学校被划分为若干个区,根据项目规定,每个区至少有 50%的学生必须在第一学期接受牙科治疗。为了公平起见,一些地区不能比其他地区等待更长的时间来接受牙科治疗。我们将该问题建模为一个并行机器调度问题,该问题的设置成本和批次到期日都与顺序有关,并提出了一个数学模型和一个基于遗传算法的解决方案来解决该问题。我们的计算结果证明了我们的方法在获得接近最优解方面的有效性。最后,牙科项目管理人员可以利用这项工作中提出的方法来安排流动牙科诊所的时间,并改善其运营。
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Health Care Management Science
Health Care Management Science HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES-
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期刊介绍: Health Care Management Science publishes papers dealing with health care delivery, health care management, and health care policy. Papers should have a decision focus and make use of quantitative methods including management science, operations research, analytics, machine learning, and other emerging areas. Articles must clearly articulate the relevance and the realized or potential impact of the work. Applied research will be considered and is of particular interest if there is evidence that it was implemented or informed a decision-making process. Papers describing routine applications of known methods are discouraged. Authors are encouraged to disclose all data and analyses thereof, and to provide computational code when appropriate. Editorial statements for the individual departments are provided below. Health Care Analytics Departmental Editors: Margrét Bjarnadóttir, University of Maryland Nan Kong, Purdue University With the explosion in computing power and available data, we have seen fast changes in the analytics applied in the healthcare space. The Health Care Analytics department welcomes papers applying a broad range of analytical approaches, including those rooted in machine learning, survival analysis, and complex event analysis, that allow healthcare professionals to find opportunities for improvement in health system management, patient engagement, spending, and diagnosis. We especially encourage papers that combine predictive and prescriptive analytics to improve decision making and health care outcomes. The contribution of papers can be across multiple dimensions including new methodology, novel modeling techniques and health care through real-world cohort studies. Papers that are methodologically focused need in addition to show practical relevance. Similarly papers that are application focused should clearly demonstrate improvements over the status quo and available approaches by applying rigorous analytics. Health Care Operations Management Departmental Editors: Nilay Tanik Argon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bob Batt, University of Wisconsin The department invites high-quality papers on the design, control, and analysis of operations at healthcare systems. We seek papers on classical operations management issues (such as scheduling, routing, queuing, transportation, patient flow, and quality) as well as non-traditional problems driven by everchanging healthcare practice. Empirical, experimental, and analytical (model based) methodologies are all welcome. Papers may draw theory from across disciplines, and should provide insight into improving operations from the perspective of patients, service providers, organizations (municipal/government/industry), and/or society. Health Care Management Science Practice Departmental Editor: Vikram Tiwari, Vanderbilt University Medical Center The department seeks research from academicians and practitioners that highlights Management Science based solutions directly relevant to the practice of healthcare. Relevance is judged by the impact on practice, as well as the degree to which researchers engaged with practitioners in understanding the problem context and in developing the solution. Validity, that is, the extent to which the results presented do or would apply in practice is a key evaluation criterion. In addition to meeting the journal’s standards of originality and substantial contribution to knowledge creation, research that can be replicated in other organizations is encouraged. Papers describing unsuccessful applied research projects may be considered if there are generalizable learning points addressing why the project was unsuccessful. Health Care Productivity Analysis Departmental Editor: Jonas Schreyögg, University of Hamburg The department invites papers with rigorous methods and significant impact for policy and practice. Papers typically apply theory and techniques to measuring productivity in health care organizations and systems. The journal welcomes state-of-the-art parametric as well as non-parametric techniques such as data envelopment analysis, stochastic frontier analysis or partial frontier analysis. The contribution of papers can be manifold including new methodology, novel combination of existing methods or application of existing methods to new contexts. Empirical papers should produce results generalizable beyond a selected set of health care organizations. All papers should include a section on implications for management or policy to enhance productivity. Public Health Policy and Medical Decision Making Departmental Editors: Ebru Bish, University of Alabama Julie L. Higle, University of Southern California The department invites high quality papers that use data-driven methods to address important problems that arise in public health policy and medical decision-making domains. We welcome submissions that develop and apply mathematical and computational models in support of data-driven and model-based analyses for these problems. The Public Health Policy and Medical Decision-Making Department is particularly interested in papers that: Study high-impact problems involving health policy, treatment planning and design, and clinical applications; Develop original data-driven models, including those that integrate disease modeling with screening and/or treatment guidelines; Use model-based analyses as decision making-tools to identify optimal solutions, insights, recommendations. Articles must clearly articulate the relevance of the work to decision and/or policy makers and the potential impact on patients and/or society. Papers will include articulated contributions within the methodological domain, which may include modeling, analytical, or computational methodologies. Emerging Topics Departmental Editor: Alec Morton, University of Strathclyde Emerging Topics will handle papers which use innovative quantitative methods to shed light on frontier issues in healthcare management and policy. Such papers may deal with analytic challenges arising from novel health technologies or new organizational forms. Papers falling under this department may also deal with the analysis of new forms of data which are increasingly captured as health systems become more and more digitized.
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