117. Optimal contract policies for improving access to child and youth public services: the case of the Ontario Autism Program
Contributed abstract in session FC-4: Policies and Networks, stream Regular talks.
Friday, 14:00-15:30Room: Room S3
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Felipe Rodrigues
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| School of Management, Economics and Mathematics, King's University College at Western University |
Abstract
Access to public services in Canada has declined significantly, with the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) as a prime example. This publicly funded program currently has more than 60,000 children registered and waiting up to 2 years for provincial funding to access decentralized private services and treatments for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We focus on the strategic decisions that families, service providers, and governments make in a decentralized system characterized by congestion, where competing interests have been introduced in asymmetric competition, providing a strategic queuing game behaviour among its players. We developed a general mathematical framework to explore the structure of optimal contractual agreements for the OAP in the presence of congestion and information asymmetry in offering public treatment services for autism. This preliminary framework can then be generalized to other decentralized congested healthcare services.
Keywords
- Access and waiting list
- Healthcare policy modelling
- Patient flow
Status: accepted
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