Regional Planning of Health Care Facilities

The regional planning of health care facilities is treated as a process of searching, integrating, screening, matching, evaluating, and selecting the type of facilities most suitable for the physical and socioeconomic environment in which the facilities are to be constructed. A rational procedure which matches various possible combinations of environmental features and performance characteristics of potential facility types is presented, and the process of determining the location and the extent of services of a facility in the region by means of sophisticated computer programming techniques is discussed in detail.