https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.1

Making regional facility location decisions: the example of Hospital do Oeste Norte, Portugal

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2014)
Submitted: 5 December 2014
Accepted: 5 December 2014
Published: 1 November 2014
public facility, macro-location, micro-location, local development, hospital, Portugal.
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Jorge Gonçalves
jorgemgoncalves@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Centre for Urban and Regional Systems, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
J. Antunes Ferreira
Centre for Urban and Regional Systems, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
Beatriz Condessa
Centre for Urban and Regional Systems, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the decision-making process for the location of large public facilities, responding to the growing demand for greater rationality in public investment whilst still offering services of quality and addressing the problem of spatial friction. The specific problem analysed in this paper is the need to define the best location for a public hospital in a particular region of Portugal. The singularity of the approach adopted lies above all in the seg- mentation into macro-location and micro-location.

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Gonçalves, J., Ferreira, J. A., & Condessa, B. (2014). Making regional facility location decisions: the example of Hospital do Oeste Norte, Portugal. Geospatial Health, 9(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.1

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