Preventive health care is unlike healthcare for acute ailments, as people are less alert to their unknown medical problems. In order to motivate public and to attain desired participation levels for preventive programs, the attractiveness of the health care facility is a majör concern. Health...

Das Netzwerk Gesundheitsregion Winterthur – Vernetzungsgrade sowie Erfolge in der Schnittstellenkoordination -- Intelligente Vernetzung in der Gesundheitsregion Rhein-Neckar -- Mobiles Tele-augenärztliches Untersuchungssystem MTAU verbessert Krankenhausversorgung in...

We develop an appointment scheduling model for a healthcare clinic that includes an upper bound on expected patient wait times. We refer to the schedule it produces as an equitable schedule. The operating environment of our focal clinic included three complicating features, all of which are...

Preventive health care is of utmost importance to governments since they can make massive savings on health care expenditure and promote the well-being of the society. Preventive care includes many services such as cancer screenings, vaccinations, hepatitis screenings, and smoking cessation...

Background: Functional regions are abstract, uniformly defined territorial units that form an important basis for many development strategies of a country or a region. Objectives: This study analyses the application of network theory to the detection of such regions. Methods/Approach: Functional...

This article considers the use of fuzzy logic to support the evaluation of project status. A brief description of fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic and the process of calculation is given. The major goal of this paper is to present an expert decision-making fuzzy model for evaluating project status....

The starting point for our discussion is the notion of the behavioural present value (BPV) defined by Piasecki as a positive L-R fuzzy number. In this work the information described by BPV is supplemented with a subjective forecast of orientation of the market price trend. This forecast was...

Fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods and problems have increasingly been considered in the past years. Type-1 fuzzy sets are usually used by decision-makers (DMs) to express their evaluations in the process of decision-making. Interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FSs), which are...