Mental Health Allocation and Planning Simulation Model

Operations research (OR) is a scientific extension of mathematics that attempts to explain the behavior ofsystemsbasedonanunderstandingorknowledgeaboutthebehaviorofthesystem’scomponents (Sacolick,1980).Itutilizesdiversemethodssuchasmathematicalmodeling,statistics,andalgorithms toarriveatoptimal(ornearoptimal)solutionstointricateproblems.Itistypicallyconcernedwith maximizing or minimizing some goal stated as an “objective function.”