The respondents suggested that there was significant unmet need in the rural areas, partly because there were very few local services.
In effect, the policy of minimizing unmet needs might be taken to be a version of negative utilitarianism, which recommends minimizing pain and suffering.
Rather, the outcomes of this study highlight a number of important areas of possible unmet need in adolescent cancer care that require further research.
Dignity and aspirations denied : unmet health and social care needs in an inner-city area.
However, it is hard to estimate the full extent of unmet need, owing to difficulties in estimating prevalence of the disorder.
Subsidiary outcomes were self-rated symptoms, distress and disability, researcher-rated unmet treatment needs.
This would help create improved awareness among practitioners and health professionals about some of the unmet needs of older people in the country.
In summary, this report has accomplished its goal of identifying issues associated with the definition and application of unmet need.
