title: Toward an improvement of life optimizing resource use.
abstract: In this paper an object-oriented system for the storing and the managing of epidemiological data in order to decrease the incidence of a given groups of diseases by means of health care strategy application and of the relative health care resource allocation is described. The system starts from the present epidemiological situation of the territory examined and from the real distribution on this territory of human and material health care resources. The health care manager inputs the available budget, some information regarding the population living on this area, other geographical and climatic informations, the values of certain epidemiological parameters of the diseases considered--the system has stored the mathematical and departmental models of these diseases--and the system allocates (using own allocation algorithms) human and material health care resources, optimizing the cost-benefit rate.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica - IASI, Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rafanelli
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferri
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maceratini
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002771:Cholera / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D003663:Decision Trees; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005843:Geography; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006295:Health Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007558:Italy; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D014584:User-Computer Interface