Home-based care (HBC) is an effective service model to reduce the burden on a country's health and welfare systems. In South Africa, the orphaned and vulnerable children crisis has become the focus of HBC programmes. These programmes are mostly within semi-urban settlements where the need is greatest. Successful software solution approaches developed to support HBC routing in other countries are difficult to implement in this low-tech, low-resource environment. A solution approach based on the spacefilling curve heuristic is presented as an easily implementable, adequately performing alternative to improve the routing of daily home visits.
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Viljoen, NM. 2012. An implementable routing solution for home-based care in South Africa. 41st Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa, Aloe Ridge Hotel, Muldersdrift, 16-19 September 2012, pp. 58-66
Viljoen, N. (2012). An implementable routing solution for home-based care in South Africa. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6531
Viljoen, NM. "An implementable routing solution for home-based care in South Africa." (2012): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6531
Viljoen N, An implementable routing solution for home-based care in South Africa; 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6531 .