Relating health services to community health needs.

نویسندگان

  • R L Parker
  • A K Murthy
  • J C Bhatia
چکیده

Planning and evaluation of health services would bevefit from an increased ability to relame health needs to health measures effective to meet these needs. In 1968.69 studies were made in India and Turkey which attempted to develop a framework using well defined health functions to link needs arid services. An important fea­ ture of these studies was the functional analysis of health services as a basis to describe the allocation of resources within the services. Consequences of changes within the services or accommodation of the services to fulfil unmet community health needs are iliustrated in this paper using data from Punjab, India. Applica­ tions of the methods of the study for health services research, planning and evaluation are sugg(sted.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Indian journal of medical research

دوره 60 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1972