Design of healthcare at home structures

The issue of access to heamthcare is crucial in our modern society. One obvious effect of the augmentation of healthcare services demand is the increasing occupancy rates in hospitals. The main difference between the provision of care at the hospital and at home is as follows: the patient is at hospital and all the resources necessary for its treatment are in the same place, while in the care delivered at home, resources must be moved to the bedside. There are several challenges in order to achieve this change. In this thesis we address three important issues in the design of structures of home care. First, the location of structures minimizing logistics costs, where we develop three models with different features such as traveling costs of resources, changes in demand over time and evolution of freelance resources. These models allow us to provide robust location over time while ensuring maximum coverage and minimizing costs. The second issue is the choice of activities, epidemiological and spatial coverage, taking into account different types of activities and resources, permissions to serve some pathologies and coverage. Two models developed allow us to show the effects on the demand allocation and resources planning induced by changes in the costs of freelance professionals and authorization to serve some pathologies. The third problem is the dimensioning of resources with demand uncertainty (volume, epidemiological and geographical) and the proposed model takes into account the underlying problem of moving resources using an estimate of the routes performed.

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00872856
Author Rodriguez Verjan, Carlos
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 8, 2026, 04:17 (UTC)
Created May 8, 2026, 04:17 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2013EMSE0683
Language fr
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contributor Ingénierie des systèmes de soins et des services de santé (I4S-ENSMSE) ; École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (Mines Saint-Étienne MSE) ; Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-CIS
creator Rodriguez Verjan, Carlos
date 2013-02-26T00:00:00
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