Spatial Interaction Model in Health-Care Facility Location-Allocation

Abstract

This study aims at developing a formulation and a simple solution procedure for location-allocation of hierarchical health care facilities. We deal with hospital as an upper level and health center as a lower level. The model is based on the hypothesis that the location and allocation are controlled by different decision-makers. The results that we expected in our model show the performance of users' behavior based on spatial interaction effect in choosing a site of hospital or health center to minimize the total patients weighted distance in a simple real network.