title: The interface between statistics and health planning.
abstract: This essay is a brief review of some of the major limitations, and the nature of the underlying assumptions, in the use of Statistics in Health Planning: it poses pertinent questions which the Health Planner must face when using Statistics; and draws attention to System Dynamics, a relatively new Research technique which may be applied to studies in human ecology and other complex systems.
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005869:Ghana; D006285:Health Planning; D013223:Statistics as Topic