On the Use of Linear Programming for Family Planning Resource Allocation |
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accounting identity actual number B₁X B₂ beginning contraceptor birth per continuing birth rate constraint birth rates achievable births as output births per beginning births per money budget constraint c₂x2 continuing contraceptor contraceptive methods pills contraceptor of age contraceptor variables cost per averted crude birth rate decision variables desired birth rate developing countries Dominican Republic model dual problem underestimates dual variable existing birth rate expressed in births family planning program FAMILY PLANNING RESOURCE hence Honduras IUDs linear programming model LP model LP whose objective mathematical programming model MAXAVERT model maximization of averted maximizing averted births MINBIRTH model minimize births Minimizing Costs modelling for family money unit noncontraceptor of age nonpositive number of averted number of constraints number of noncontraceptors objective function Pernia and Danao Philippine planning horizon PLANNING RESOURCE ALLOCATION Primal Problem production problem reduce the number represent averted births reproductive age sterilization trivial optimal solution women of reproductive X₁ yearly births