It is an introduction slide for Operation research and its role in Health Sector.

1. Operation Research and Health
Sector
-Anant Dev Asheesh
IIHMR- New Delhi

2. FOCUS
• What is Operation Research?
• How it is important in Health sector?

3. • Any type of research that produces practically
usable information which can improve the
effectiveness & efficiency of program
implementation will be called Operation
Research.

4. • Operation Research is also known as
Operational Research(OR) or Management
Science.
• It has existed as a scientific discipline since
1930s
• It helps in decision making

5. It is not much popular in Health sector because-
• Less number of people have
engineering/mathematical background in
health sector
• Major OR papers are focused on specialised
and technical topics and not specifically on
healthcare associated topics

6. • Lack of Data
• Lack of Expertise
• High fees of OR consultants

7. OR process
Identification of
the problem
Possible
solutions of
the
problems
are listed
Best
alternative solution
becomes the piece
of research
Note- Sometimes just the
identification of the problem
becomes the topic of research.

8. Health Program Cycle
INPUT
PROCESS
OUTPUT
IMPACT
Operation Research can be
used at any step of the Cycle.

9. Two main approaches to carry OR studies-
1. Secondary Data
2. Primary Data

10. The 4 types of OR studies
1. Exploratory Study
2. Intervention Study
3. Evaluation study
4. Cost Effectiveness Study

11. OR can help in-
1. Bed Allocation by Specialities
2. Outpatient Appointment Scheduling
3. Queue Management and Design
4. Planning of project infrastructure and
manpower demand

12. Thank
You !!