An integrated production function for a military HMO
By: by David Whipple and Pieter Van Winkle
Contributors: Van Winkle, Pieter Kingsland; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Medical care; Mathematical models; Armed Forces; Production functions (Economic theory)
Description: A mathematical model of an operational military Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is constructed integrating both impatient and ambulatory care outputs. Incorporating the interdependencies in staffing and facilities utilization, the model holds promise for extension to civilian HMO's with parametric changes in methods of practice. The model may be used descriptively to indicate maximal patient care levels in specific patient categories (i.e., the derivation of the production possibilities frontier for health care) and to identify bottleneck constraints. As an optimization tool, budgetary allocation decisions are facilitated in both the long and short run, in terms of maximizing patient flow and minimizing the cost of providing for a given eligible population, respectively.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Prepared for: Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA 22217"--Cover.

"July 1975"--Cover.

"NPS-55Wp75071"--Cover.

Author(s) subject terms: Health care, hospitals, military medicine, HMO's, health economics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1975.