A study on the universal access to vaccines in Brazil

A study on the universal access to vaccines in Brazil

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 po...

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Main Authors: Fabio Dias Fagundez, Adilson Elias Xavier, Roberto de Andrade Medronho, João Lauro Dorneles Facó, Leandro Layter Xavier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Operacional 2009-12-01
Series:Pesquisa Operacional
Subjects:
programação não-linear
vacinação
saúde pública
programação matemática
nonlinear programming
vaccination
public healthcare
mathematical programming
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-74382009000300008

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