Indirect Needs Assessment for Mental Health Services Planning: Introduction to This Special Issue.

Goldsmith, Harold F.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1992

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Indirect Needs Assessment for Mental Health Services Planning: Introduction to This Special Issue.

Goldsmith, Harold F.; And Others

Evaluation and Program Planning, v15 n2 p111-13 Apr-Jun 1992

Articles in this special issue use survey data to provide policymakers with validated indirect needs assessment models that will help them obtain information about populations requiring different levels and types of mental health services. The articles provide the basis for predictive needs assessment and explanatory models of resource allocation. (SLD)

Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Health Needs, Mental Health Programs, Models, Needs Assessment, Policy Formation, Predictive Measurement, Program Development, Program Validation, Psychiatric Services, Research Reports, Resource Allocation, Surveys

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Audience: Policymakers

Language: English

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