This includes an under-supply of population health services, a relative over-supply of curative services, an over-prescription of pharmaceuticals and asymmetrical knowledge between providers and patients.
It uses a framework based on three dimensions of coverage: population, service and cost.
Unemployment was avoided despite a substantial growth of population, and services were able to expand to meet demand.
A large gap between adjacent pairs of coverage measures shows that, for a proportion of the target population, service provisioning is not meeting their needs.
This region serves approximately a quarter of Melbourne's population, servicing around 14,000 students at each year level from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds [ 26].
According to the assessment of the Institute of Economic and Social Research, the private sector was still poorly represented in the delivery of health care services to the Serbian population in 2009: outpatient services served 1.2% of population, and inpatient services 0.6% of population [ 31].
Finally, some GHAs are in favor of free care for a combination of populations and services, such as basic health care for children under 5 [ 56, 57].
To assess the 'remoteness' of the populations serviced by each HEMS we used the enhanced Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA+) score [ 14].
Service accessibility decreases the effect of population size on service utilization (β=−0.606, p<0.01), and educational profile weakens the effects of population size and age profile on service utilization (β=−0.595, p<0.01; β=−0.286, p<0.01, respectively).
We developed a computer-aided system that allows the evaluation of population-based service screening to unify these aspects and facilitate and guide the program assessor to efficiently perform an evaluation.
Favourable outcomes of breast cancer screening trials in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in the launch of population-based service screening programmes in many Western countries.
