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NHS Trust reports were used to estimate the base population of services, including the ethnic and age mix of the local population; the socio-demographic index, and whether the service was based in a rural or urban or mixed area.
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In this case, non-overlapping service areas were computed {text{PA}} = {text{PD}},*,{text{ SA}} (2 where PA = Population of service area, PD = Population density, SA = Area of service area coverage.
Theoretically the population of service industry workers in the area could represent the size of the "accessible daytime population".
We applied this concept to a population of service users within a catchment area in the mental health care system in Germany.
When population, daytime population and population of service industry workers were each regarded as parameters of community attractiveness, the distribution of physicians was least equal against population and was most equal against service industry workers.
Issues of representativeness were also raised as a negative outcome, with 8 professionals stating that those who become involved may not be representative of the larger population of service users, thus making them unsuitable to speak on behalf of others.
In their comments professionals questioned the rationale of identifying service users to represent a wider population of service users particularly if they are 'currently well' articulate and from a background that doesn't reflect the views of the majority of people receiving services.
Although participation rates limit the conclusions that can be drawn regarding overall population use of services, relationships between a measure of Provisional Service Need and service use indicated that those with higher needs were more likely to access specialist services.
Although these areas depend on population usage of services that might vary from one year to another, we believe that the delineation of areas would not be significantly changed if constructed over longer time periods.
The results then used weighted data to represent estimated in-scope population of operating services for the reference week.
Section A describes the general principles of evaluation and coding, the description of the catchment area and the target population of the services that should be coded in the mapping exercise.
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