Descriptive epidemiological studies are the fundamental basis of needs-assessments for health-care provision, both for entire populations and for various subgroups within it whose needs may be different.
Council homes would be allocated on the basis of need, rather than for example by passing them from one generation to the next, which would tend to favour poorer recent arrivals and make older communities feel as if they were being excluded and pushed out.
Retirement and welfare allotments are given on the basis of need, and public assistance is available for residents with visual and other disabilities.
We calculated the sample size needed for the development of the model on the basis of the need for 10-15 delirious patients per risk factor plus 10% dropout.
The study provides the first evidence in animals for a physiological basis of the need for sleep, says the study's leader, Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, a visiting neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School.
This means that relying on assessments of the status of care recipients with dementia, and on carer burden, may inadvertently exclude those for whom the basis of their need for services falls outside existing measures.
The Executive Masters Degree was prepared and developed on the basis of the need for enhanced capacity building on Child Rights and with the purpose to address the need for further investments in the training of professionals that will bolster the quality of technical assistance on child rights issues in the region.
On the basis of the need for theory- and evidence-based supportive interventions for partners of cancer patients, the web-based self-help intervention Hold on, for each other has been developed.
In brief, it would appear that, taking ICF categories as the point of departure, the EDAD 2008 may provide a basis for estimating the prevalence of need for personal help, with it being more difficult to address the need for social support required to improve social participation in, e.g., work, leisure or economy.
