Healthcare facility locations are decided in response to demography, geography, existing healthcare and its situation, socio-economic, cultural and political conditions, and disease pattern. Public healthcare facility locations in India are done to take advantages on political fronts. The application of scientific location-allocation models helps in achieving both the real objectives of the public healthcare system as well as political benefits. The paper presents the factors deciding the location of a healthcare facility, application of facility location models in general and on the healthcare system and basic model from discrete facility models for direct use with minimum input required for decision making for healthcare facility locations. The result of the application of the heuristic model shows efficiency in comparison to the existing practice of decision making. The papers conclude with the benefits of using the location-allocation models in the healthcare system.
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