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Providing Healthcare to the Poor: Utilizing Operations Research as a Means to Improving People’s Lives through Quality Healthcare

Sunil J. Ramlall, Khalid M. AL-Shuaibi, Mohamed A. Yaghmour

Advances in Research · pp. 53–58 · Published 17 Dec 2014

10.9734/AIR/2015/15026

Abstract

Countries across the world are constantly pursuing access to timely and appropriate primary healthcare for people living in, even those with universal healthcare systems. This paper addresses the need for transformation and a more integrative approach to delivering healthcare to the poor. We are proposing the use of multiple operations research theories and applications as a means to integrate into core healthcare processes enabling organizations to provide a more efficient and accessible healthcare system.   

Healthcare research operations poverty reduction healthcare efficiency global healthcare

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