But there is potential for local authorities to take on a more facilitative function – supporting local communities to use the assets they already have to design services that really meet their needs, defined by themselves".
This example of directed action at an unconference has fast become the next step in the evolution of camps, where a diverse set of volunteers come together to donate more than money or blood: they exchange information and then apply their skills to creating solutions to the needs defined by a given set of societal challenges.
Particular attention should be paid to the complex care needs defined by the comorbidity burden on women with HIV.
First, the concordance between patient's self-defined treatment need and need defined by oncologists or by symptom checklists is low (Söllner et al, 2001; Fritzsche et al, 2004; Garssen and de Kok, 2008).
The standard approach is to compare the number of calories eaten to the number needed, with "need" defined by a statistical average across a population.
From empiricists, more and specific quantifications of spatial flows are needed, defined by the major categories of organismal movement (dispersal, foraging, life-cycle, and migration).
To examine associations of clinical need, defined by elevated parent ratings of child behavior problems and utilization of behavioral health services in young children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and an orthopedic injury (OI) comparison group.
Youths with mental health need (defined by a clinical range score on the Child Behavior Checklist) were much more likely to receive mental health services than lower scoring youth; still, only one fourth of such youths received any specialty mental health care during the previous 12 months.
Categories of need defined by Bradshaw [ 2] are normative need, felt need, expressed need, and comparative need.
Health need, defined by self-perceived health status, was the most important determinant for visiting public or private sector physicians, emergency departments and admissions to the hospitals.
Inequity was most evident for patients aged ≥65 years, for whom attendance rate ratios pointed to significant underutilisation compared with younger age groups because proxy of need, defined by ward-level coronary mortality, was so much higher.
