Analysis of Health Service Systems: A Comparative Study

Abstract

The current Brazilian health system is the result of a process of evolution over the years that, in particular, in recent decades, counted onsubstantial investments for the improvement of services provided, however, several problems, such as delays in procedures marking and overcrowding, are still observed. In this context, considering health systems as systems with discrete events, it is possible toexplore modeling and analysis techniques developed for this class of systems. Therefore, in this paper, two different approaches are considered for modeling and analysis of health systems, one based on Petri Net and another on discrete simulation with packages (softwares) of sim-ulation.