Practice Summaries: Designing Disease Prevention and Screening Centers in Abu Dhabi

K. Louis Luangkesorn (), Bryan A. Norman (), Yi Zhuang (), Mimi Falbo () and John Sysko ()
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K. Louis Luangkesorn: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Bryan A. Norman: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Yi Zhuang: San Diego Padres, San Diego, California 92101
Mimi Falbo: Mimi Falbo LLC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219
John Sysko: Astorino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222

Interfaces, 2012, vol. 42, issue 4, 406-409

Abstract: Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA) has established Disease Prevention and Screening Centers (DPSCs) to provide health screening for third-country national (TCN) workers. In anticipation of increases in the number of TCN workers who will require health screening, SEHA is building new centers to accommodate the increased requirements. As part of the design process, we used queuing and simulation models to model (1) the current DPSC configuration, (2) a configuration based on individual lanes, and (3) a configuration based on pooled lanes. We then used these models to analyze the effects of design decisions on capacity and customer flow through the centers.

Keywords: public health; queuing; simulation; capacity planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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