Assessing the supply of mental health resources.

INTRODUCTION b. Input measures of the capacity to produce service The procedure used for health planning, In discussing these four operations, a as conceptualized by Donabedianl and theoretical background is developed for asothers, consists of the following three steps: sessing mental health resources. Problems in­ (1) assessing the need for health care, (2) asherent in the process are presented, and a sessing the supply of resources available to model for measuring mental health resources provide health care, and (3) analyzing is introduced in the final section to the Note. whether or not the supply of resources is adequate to meet the need for health care. The final step in this process is probably SPECIFICATION OF THE GEOGRAPHIC