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  • 1 - Assessing needs for psychiatric services

  • from Part I - Unmet need: defining the problem
  • Edited by Gavin Andrews, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Scott Henderson, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Unmet Need in Psychiatry
    Published online:
    21 August 2009
    Print publication:
    06 January 2000, pp 3-7

  • Summary

    People are different whether well or ill. They belong to different cultures, have different personalities, physical constitutions and personal histories, all of which makes them perceive their diseases in a specific manner. Recently, planning and evaluation services have regained strength under the pressure of economic factors and the population's insistence that they receive more care of better quality. There is also confusion about who is responsible for the implementation of some interventions. Care for the sick members of a society is an ethical imperative, even if significant amounts of money are spent and not recouped. The task of the health care specialist is to provide the best possible treatment or support for those members of society who are not well: the political structure of the country has to decide on the total amount of money that will be spent on health.