Accessibility and Quality of Health Services

Contents : Duncan P. Boldy/Shu-Chiung Chou/Andy H. Lee: Quality in Residential Aged Care: the Residents' Perspectives - Marten Lagergren: A Simulation Model Concerning Future Needs of Long-Term Care of Elderly Persons in Sweden - Vanda De Angelis/Giovanni Felici/Giovanni Storchi: Planning the Emergency Ambulance Service in the City of Rome by a Mixed Integer Linear Programming Model - Lupe N.P. Toscano/Mario J. Ferreira De Oliveira: An Emergency Decision Support Tool Based Upon Quality of Care Parameters - Luiz R.T.A. Costa/Rogério A.C. Penna/Sérgio L. Hoeflich: Towards an Integrated Approach to Improve the Emergency Admission System - Martin Dlouhý: Investment Policy in the Health System of the Czech Republic from the International Perspective - Maria H. Brachowicz/Jaime G. Bellido/Cesar das Neves: Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of Sanitation Projects Using the Daly Index - Marcos P.E. Lins/Antonio C. Gonçalves/Eliane G. Gomes/Angela C.M. da Silva: Performance Assessment of Dental Clinics through PC-Oriented Data Envelopment Analysis - Santiago S.R. Carvajal/Maria Brachowicz/Jaime G. Bellido/Cesar das Neves: A Multivariate Analysis of Fecal-Oral Diseases in Rio de Janeiro - Marco A. Lavrador/Fátima M.H.S.P. Oliveira/Mario J.F. de Oliveira: Modeling The Dynamics of Intensive Care Unit of a Public Hospital as a Renewal Process - Rafael M. Gênova/Rosimary T. Almeida/Maria Inês Gadelha: Linear Programming Models to Support Resource Allocation: The Case of Breast Cancer Chemotherapy - Antônio A. Gonçalves/Mario J.F. De Oliveira: The Use of Simulation to Improve Cancer Treatment Access - Jaime G. Bellido/Mario J.F. De Oliveira: A Simulation Model for Short-term Forecasts of the Surgical Ward Census - Jan M.H. Vissers: Policies for Emergency Reservation and Electives Scheduling in a Hospital Setting - Ludmila Gabcan/Mario J.F. De Oliveira: 3D Visual Simulation Applied to a New Thorax Disease Institute - Adriana B. Moraes/Mario J.F. De Oliveira/Sheila M. Esposito/Simone M.

The Editor: Mario Jorge Ferreira de Oliveira received the MSc in production engineering and the Ph.D. in Operational Research from the Strathclyde University, Glasgow. He spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the information systems department of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He has co-operated with other members of the ORAHS in joint projects and participated in several interchange programmes. His research interests include application of discrete-event visual simulation and decision support systems to issues of health and care operation. He currently works at the Institute of Mathematics and at COPPE, the Institute Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós Graduação em Engenharia, both in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.