Using Interactive Multiple Objective Methods to Determine the Budget Assignment to the Hospitals of a Sanitary System

One of the main problems that the decision centers of public sanitary systems must face is the budget distribution among the different hospitals of the system. Sanitary, economical, and political criteria must be combined to take the final decision. In this paper, a combined procedure, which uses several interactive multiple objective methods, is applied to the specific problem of the Andalusian Public Health Service. The performance of the system is studied, and the final results are commented by the decision-makers.