The innovative, demand-based organizational design for efficient oncological care in Poland : a Voronoi diagram analysis

Waldemar Karpa, Jakub Nowakowski (Department of Economics, Kozminski University in Warsaw)

In this paper, we apply a Voronoi diagram to map the existing design of oncological care in Poland. First, we correlate the actual organization of care with epidemiological data on cancer survival rate and morbidity. On this basis, we build a proxy for localized demand for oncological care. As a further step, we construct a Voronoi diagram to discuss the project of a national network for oncology in Poland based on comprehensive cancer centers and institutes, aiming at improving accessibility and equality in access to specialized oncological care.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Karpa, Waldemar ; Nowakowski, Jakub
Publisher:	[Warsaw] : [Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Mathematics, Department of Econometrics and Statistics]
Subject:	health economics \| Voronoi diagram \| Polen \| Poland \| Gesundheitswesen \| Health care system \| Gesundheitsökonomik \| Health economics \| Theorie \| Theory