TY - GEN
T1 - Hospital Capacity Planning for Special Economic Zone in Thailand
T2 - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2018
AU - An, T. S.
AU - Kritchanchai, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Increasing the employment demand in a particular region has an impact on the healthcare system due to types of occupational diseases/injuries and number of workers. Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, is one of target areas to launch special economic zone (SEZ), which will cause dramatic population growth. Thus the aim of this research is to propose hospital capacity planning in Kanchanaburi taking into account the upcoming SEZ. This study employs a two-stage approach for data collection and validation. Firstly, interview and focus group is used to gather all related healthcare logistic issues. Then hospital's capacity is forecasted based on target health provider-topopulation ratios. The results show that current healthcare services in Kanchanaburi will not be sufficient to support the projected population.
AB - Increasing the employment demand in a particular region has an impact on the healthcare system due to types of occupational diseases/injuries and number of workers. Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, is one of target areas to launch special economic zone (SEZ), which will cause dramatic population growth. Thus the aim of this research is to propose hospital capacity planning in Kanchanaburi taking into account the upcoming SEZ. This study employs a two-stage approach for data collection and validation. Firstly, interview and focus group is used to gather all related healthcare logistic issues. Then hospital's capacity is forecasted based on target health provider-topopulation ratios. The results show that current healthcare services in Kanchanaburi will not be sufficient to support the projected population.
KW - demand forecasting
KW - healthcare logistics
KW - hospital capacity planning
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85061839718
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607755
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2018.8607755
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061839718
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 1593
EP - 1597
BT - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2018
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 16 December 2018 through 19 December 2018
ER -