Slop: A Strategic Multiple Store Location Model for a Dynamic Environment

A model is provided that allows optimum choice of store location in the present and in the future. Choice of location is based on optimum location that will work with the best present scenario and the best future scenario. Basis for the model is market demand data from consumer surveys and sales performance data

Designing and evaluating a health care delivery system through the use of interactive computer graphics

During the past decade an awareness has emerged for the necessity of planning the efficient delivery of regional health care services. This paper focuses on the implementation of an analytical tool to aid health planners in evaluating current and prescribing future health care facility and service locations. The analysis was performed under the rubric of an interactive computer graphic approach permitting optimal man-machine interaction. Although a considerable theoretical and methodological literature already exists in this area, the solution techniques tend to be mathematically complex and highly specific. The proposed system will place in the hands of an experienced decision-maker, the health planner, a set of easily manipulated models, supported by a set of powerful mathematical tools, which provide flexibility for changing planning objectives, results that are easily interpreted, and a relatively low cost technique.

Conceitos de espaço na análise de políticas de saúde Concepts of space in the analysis of health policies

A incorporação da dimensão espacial na análise de políticas de saúde, com todas as suas conseqüências práticas, vem assumindo crescente importância, sustenta a autora com base num amplo levantamento de fontes na literatura especializada. Há um avanço real na passagem da atenção ao território para a atenção ao espaço, com suas tensões internas. A ênfase na heterogeneidade do espaço urbano permite dirigir-se de maneira mais informada e rigorosa para as questões centrais da justiça e da cidadania.<br>The incorporation of the spatial dimension in the analysis of health policies, with all its practical consequences, shows a growing importance, holds the author on the basis of a wide survey of sources in the specialized literature. There is a real advance in the passage from the attention to territory to the attention to space, with its internal tensions. The emphasis on the heterogeneity of urban space allows addressing in a more informed and rigorous way the central questions of justice and citizenship