Population segmentation based on healthcare needs: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare needs-based population segmentation is a promising approach for enabling the development and evaluation of integrated healthcare service models that meet healthcare needs. However, healthcare policymakers interested in understanding adult population healthcare needs may not be aware of suitable population segmentation tools available for use in the literature and barring better-known alternatives, may reinvent the wheel by creating and validating their own tools rather than adapting available tools in the literature. Therefore, we undertook a systematic review to identify all available tools which operationalize healthcare need-based population segmentation, to help inform policymakers developing population-level health service programmes.

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SUBMITTER: Chong JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6693177 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature