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PLANNING HEALTH SERVICES—DEMAND OR NEED?

Medical Journal of Australia, 1976
This paper discusses the currently popular approach to planning health services which is based on demand predictions. From a consideration of the demand concept, the problems of measuring present demand and forecasting future demand, it is concluded that this approach to planning will not provide health care which serves the best interest of patients ...
R, McEwin, J, Hall
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Health needs, demand for health services and expenditure across social groups in Italy: An empirical investigation

Social Science and Medicine, 1993
The shortage of empirical studies on socio-economic factors influencing demand for health care and inequalities across social groups is dramatic in the case of Italy. The present study aims at discussing these issues, although its results are to be considered mainly methodological, given the small dimension of the sample (n = 807). A survey was carried
exaly   +3 more sources

Reducing Health Care Costs by Reducing the Need and Demand for Medical Services

New England Journal of Medicine, 1993
Health care costs in the United States exceed 14 percent of the gross domestic product, far more than in any other nation. Overall costs were $838 billion in 1992, or over $3,000 per person1. Well over 30 million Americans are uninsured, partly because of rising premium costs2,3.
James F. Fries   +7 more
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Are Health Services in New South Wales Available Where They are Needed? Using AURIN to Understand the Equity of Service Distribution and Future Demand

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2018
There are valuable opportunities for new data and analytical tools available from the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) to deliver insights into the spatial distribution of current and future health services. Using a national dataset covering health services characteristics and locations, and some of AURIN’s geographic and ...
Christopher Pettit, Pettit Christopher
exaly   +2 more sources

A Study of Need and Demand for Orthodontic Treatment in Two Contrasting National Health Service Regions

British Journal of Orthodontics, 1990
A study has been made of attitudes towards the need for orthodontic treatment and its acceptability to fifth year high school pupils in two regional health authorities in England, selected because of differences in the number of orthodontists practising in the regions and in the amount of General Dental Service orthodontics undertaken in each.
openaire   +2 more sources

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