Nurses allocation models for maternal and child health services

S C K Chu (), M P P Ho, K K Y Lee and H P Lo
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S C K Chu: University of Hong Kong
M P P Ho: City University of Hong Kong
K K Y Lee: City University of Hong Kong
H P Lo: City University of Hong Kong

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2000, vol. 51, issue 10, 1193-1204

Abstract: Abstract Maternal and Child Health (MCH) centres in Hong Kong offer, for children aged below six and women of childbearing age, a comprehensive range of health services regularly performed by nurses of different ranks. While each rank has its specific duties, nurses of a higher rank can step down to the work of a more junior rank when necessary. However, cross-regional deployments of nurses occur less frequently. We develop goal programming models of ‘optimal’ MCH nurses allocation. The presence and absence of nurses’ ‘cross-over’ of work functions are explicitly considered. The results show that more equitable manpower levelling can be achieved, with flexibility (in the longer term) on cross-regional deployment of nurses as a possible way of operational improvement when the entire MCH service is taken as a whole.

Keywords: manpower planning and allocation; health-care application; data modelling; goal programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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