Management Problems in Health Care MEng. F. Lucka Gschwend succeeded in setting up O.P Gschwend succeeded in setting up mainly for the synovectomized finger joints a comprehensive point system aber in neuer Fassung vorgelegt werden kann The articles in this book hope to make a concrete contri bution to this subject by reporting on the latest research the authors have made in this area In Part A the first article by Heidenberger deals with 'Optimal Resource Allocation in Horizontally and Vertically Disaggregated Health Programs' Using corresponding model formulations and linear programming the pro blem is solved of how a fixed budget should be distributed among the measures of a social health program so that the control of an illness is as effective as possible