Open AccessIntervention mechanism of healthcare service goods based on social welfare maximization in China
Author(s) -
Hao Li,
Jinlin Li,
Jingrong Zhu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0214655
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , mechanism (biology) , social welfare , health care , subsidy , mechanism design , service (business) , business , computer science , economics , microeconomics , medicine , marketing , nursing , economic growth , market economy , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law
In this paper, we aim to establish a mathematical model to design a maximizing social welfare intervention mechanism of healthcare service goods in China. The intervention mechanism is helpful to facilitate the adoption of the healthcare service goods. We consider a research problem that regulates the supply chain system for healthcare service goods by an intervention mechanism, and two intervention strategies composed of demand-growth strategy and subsidy strategy are used to the combination of intervention mechanism. Then this paper presents a new method based on fuzzy set and bilevel programming to design the intervention mechanism. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, we conduct a case study for Wudang personalized health package and verify our model by the specific result analysis, the result indicates that our joint intervention mechanism is helpful to achieve the target and increase social welfare.