Better ways of assessing health needs in primary care
BMJPublished 25 February 1995Open access
J. Shanks, Sean Kheraj, Susan S. Fish
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Needs assessment has become an important task for public health doctors and others working in commissioning authorities, and a more rational and scientific method is put forward as an improvement over the former approach to allocating health funding.
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Economics, Econometrics and FinanceHealth Professions
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