As a result, Disney is among the most innovative when it comes to utilizing both new technology-driven programs to address population-specific needs and preventative care that may help reduce avoidable expenses for conditions like back injuries, cesarean procedures and even the onset of diabetes.
More recently, Italian primary healthcare reform has moved towards a more comprehensive and team-based approach to address population-specific needs and to treat chronic diseases more proactively.
This is the first study linking mHealth and cardiovascular disease in Kerala, which improves our understanding of how mHealth can address population-specific needs.
In Canada, the technology has been used to reveal overweight and obesity clusters and underscore the importance of geographically focused prevention strategies informed by population-specific needs for the purpose of targeting scarce public health resources (Pouliou and Elliott, 2009).
However, strategies for encouraging people to get screened for eligibility and to comply with the ongoing HIV testing schedules will clearly have to be tailored for the local context to meet population-specific needs.
The report contributes to a growing body of evidence illustrating the lack of attention given by humanitarian partners to the "diversity" of affected populations – the specific needs of different population groups – as a basis for the design and delivery of assistance.
I want to end by reaffirming that children, this world' s future, are one of the most vulnerable groups in the population, with specific needs that have to be protected.
To learn more about this population's specific needs, some stakeholders suggested that focus groups with patients who have the illness of interest could be used as both a starting point and feedback loop to gather input.
Such studies can be population specific and need to be conducted in various populations.
The challenge for Ghana is to implement and sustain these tobacco control efforts to prevent the current situation from escalating particularly targeting populations with specific needs as seen in this study.
This data could also be useful for policy makers that face a growing demand of older population and their specific needs in order to include health services models that respond in a comprehensive way to clinical, economic and social aspects.
