Optimizing health facility location for universal health care: A case study from the Philippines.

ABSTRACT: Site selection of health facilities is critical in ensuring universal access to basic healthcare services. However, in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like the Philippines, site selection is traditionally based on political and pragmatic considerations. Moreover, literature that demonstrates the application of facility location models in the Philippine healthcare setting remains scarce, and their usage in actual facility planning is even more limited. In this study, we proposed a variation of cooperative covering maximal models to identify the optimal location of primary care facilities. We demonstrated the feasibility of implementing such a model by using open source data on an actual city in the Philippines. Our results generated multiple candidate locations of primary care

SUBMITTER: Flores LJY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8428763 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature