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The aim of this paper is to present an evaluation approach based on multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM) technique for helping the health-care department of a country to review the over-all health-system of a state over time. In the process of decision making, experts provide their opinions linguistically regarding the alternatives depending on a finite set of interrelated attributes. Subsequently suitable aggregation method is applied to determine the overall performance value to make a final decision. Finally, we present health-system evaluation of a state for the time periods, namely, \( \{ t_{1} ,t_{2} , \ldots ,t_{n} \} \) in order to judge whether the over-all health system of the state improves over time or not.
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Guha, D., Dutta, B. (2015). Health-System Evaluation: A Multi-attribute Decision Making Approach. In: Mandal, J., Satapathy, S., Kumar Sanyal, M., Sarkar, P., Mukhopadhyay, A. (eds) Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 340. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2247-7_37
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