Measuring need for health services: a proposed model.
Despite the emphasis of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 on need assessment as the basis of health planning, no valid measures of need for health services are currently available. In this paper a need measurement model is presented for the use of health services planners and researchers following a brief critique of two existing models. Data requirements for the model and in hypothesis-testing situations are described.
D006285:Health Planning; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006307:Health Systems Agencies; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014481:United States