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Preventive Maintenance Decision Modeling In Health And Service Systems, Mahboubeh Madadi
Preventive Maintenance Decision Modeling In Health And Service Systems, Mahboubeh Madadi
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation focuses on the preventive maintenance decision modeling in healthcare and service systems. In the first part of this dissertation, some issues in preventive health decisions for breast cancer are addressed, and in the second part, the required characteristics for preventive maintenance of an unreliable queuing system are derived.
Adherence to cancer screening is the first issue that is addressed in this dissertation. Women’s adherence or compliance with mammography screening remained low in the recent years. In this dissertation, we first develop a design-based logistic regression model to quantify the probability of adherence to screening schedules based on women’s …