Preventive medicine policies

Expert InsightsPublished 1969

Some potential applications to health care of current methods used to schedule equipment repairs. It is difficult to transfer scheduling policies from physical equipment to human beings, since there are many problems involved in assessing a human being's economic value and in adapting maintenance policies to health care. However, many of the standard equipment models used for scheduling repairs on stochastically failing physical equipment may be modified for use on humans, particularly in the scheduling of dental checkups. A dental scheduling problem is outlined that is applicable to more serious health problems, such as cancer detection. 9 pp. Ref.

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  • Year: 1969
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  • Document Number: P-3368-1

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