A study on the universal access to vaccines in Brazil

Pesquisa Operacional

Fabio Dias Fagundez²  Adilson Elias Xavier¹  Roberto De Andrade Medronho¹  João Lauro Dorneles Facó¹  Leandro Layter Xavier¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro COPPE Laboratório de Otimização Avançada

关键词: nonlinear programming;    vaccination;    public healthcare;    mathematical programming;    programação não-linear;    vacinação;    saúde pública;    programação matemática;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0101-74382009000300008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, the universal access to vaccines in Brazil is discussed from an Operations Research (OR) point of view. A classic military model - the Weapon-Target Assignment (WTA) problem - is converted to a humanitarian one, where the objective is to maximize the coverage of the vaccines in the population instead of to destroy military assets. There is an enormous space for OR techniques in the whole healthcare system, as most of the planning is still hand-made, and drawn by professionals with medical background only. In addition, the healthcare data systems open new possibilities to data mining and statistical analysis. There is still a shortage of permanent programs to analyze and use this kind of statistical information for public planning. There are initiatives from the academia and public entities in this direction. In our research, the proposed model was tested with data from an original WTA problem.

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