Health emergency & care management.

摘要

AIRO (Associazione Italiana di Ricerca Operativa-Italian Association of Operation Research), funded in 1961, aims at developing Operations Research (OR) in Italy. It is made up of Associates both from Universities, National Research Council as well as private and public companies. Application fields of interest are quite general being addressed to problems in main different areas, mainly in transport and logistics. Recently, health care delivery has attracted interests of a growing group of OR researchers in collaboration with health economists. In particular, during the annualAIRO Conference organized in Genova, September 2007, one stream has been devoted to health services; more precisely, one semi-plenary session and two sessions of oral presentations with invited speakers coming from the Orahs Group, the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, have been scheduled. Moreover, a tutorial course consisting of ten lectures has been settled down to provide medical doctors and health professionals a comprehensive view of how OR can support decisions in health care delivery. So far, the community of health researchers is, therefore, growing and research in OR applied to health services is becoming a topic of interest also in Italy.