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Enhancing optimization planning models for health human resources management wi...
Amorim-Lopes, Mário; Oliveira, Mónica; Raposo, Mariana; Cardoso-Grilo, Teresa; Alvarenga, António; Barbas, Marta; Alves, Marco; Vieira, AnaAchieving a balanced healthcare workforce requires health planners to adjust the supply of health human resources (HHR). Mathematical programming models have been widely used to assist such planning, but the way uncertainty is usually considered in these models entails methodological and practical issues and often disregards radical yet plausible changes to the future. This study proposes a new socio-technical ...
Scenarios for population health inequalities in 2030 in Europe: the EURO-HEALTH...
Alvarenga, António; Costa, Carlos A. Bana e; Borrell, Carme; Ferreira, Pedro Lopes; Freitas, Ângela Mendes; Freitas, Liliana; Oliveira, Mónica D.Background: Health inequalities have been consistently reported across and within European countries and continue to pose major challenges to policy-making. The development of scenarios regarding what could affect population health (PH) inequalities across Europe in the future is considered critical. Scenarios can help policy-makers prepare and better cope with fast evolving challenges. Objective: This paper de...
Critical competitiveness factors for hospitality: a look into the future
Varum, Celeste; Eusébio, Celeste; Melo, Carla; Alvarenga, António; Carvalho, Paulo Soeiro deTaking as staring point four possible scenarios for the Portuguese hospitality industry, we investigated which would be the critical factors of competitiveness for hotels in a 2020 time horizon. The results are innovative and challenging with practical implications for managers. The work is also valuable for the international foresight community by discussing the method and addressing some drawba...
Critical competitiveness factors for hospitality: a look into the future
Varum, Celeste; Eusébio, Celeste; Melo, Carla; Alvarenga, António; Carvalho, Paulo Soeiro deTaking as staring point four possible scenarios for the Portuguese hospitality industry, we investigated which would be the critical factors of competitiveness for hotels in a 2020 time horizon.The results are innovative and challenging with practical implications for managers. The work is also valuable for the international foresight community by discussing the method and addressing some drawbacks of the scena...