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What is Location Analysis

Chapter 50
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
A decision-making procedure aimed at identifying the most suitable location within a set (site selection) or without a pre-established set (site search) for a specific purpose.
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A Decision Based Support System Based on GIS Technology
Vito Albino (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Giuseppe Digregorio (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), and Guido Sechi (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch050
Abstract
The continuous increase of the national expense for the healthcare services, the necessity to adjust the performance of the service of the National Healthcare System to the change of the demand of health coming from the population, and the necessity to evolve towards a logic of integration along a “continuum of care,” push for the reorganization of healthcare services inside the local healthcare district.
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A Bi-Criteria DSS Dedicated to Location Problems
Location analysis is the study and development of models, techniques, and tools to provide decision makers with good solutions to realistic locational decision problems.
Published in Chapter: A Bi-Criteria DSS Dedicated to Location Problems; From: Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies
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Inter and Intra Cities Smartness: A Survey on Location Problems and GIS Tools
A decision-making procedure, concerned with the study and development of models, techniques, and tools aimed at identifying the most suitable location within a set (site selection) or ?without a pre-established set (site search) to realize a number of objectives through offering good and hopefully optimal solutions.
Published in Chapter: Inter and Intra Cities Smartness: A Survey on Location Problems and GIS Tools; From: Handbook of Research on Geographic Information Systems Applications and Advancements
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