need
Let an agent help identify and meet needs: route people lacking basic necessities to support services, explain frameworks of needs, and support needs assessments in education, health and business in general terms.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent help identify and meet needs: route people lacking basic necessities to support services, explain frameworks of needs, and support needs assessments in education, health and business in general terms.
Something required for survival, wellbeing or a purpose, from basic human needs such as food, water, shelter and safety to psychological, educational, clinical and business needs, including special educational needs and shortages such as drug shortages.
What it is for: Understanding and meeting requirements.
It can be find support for food, shelter and other basic needs; explain frameworks of human needs; understand special educational needs processes in general terms; conduct a needs assessment.
Distinguishing features
Requirement for wellbeing or purpose
Can be assessed
Varies by person and context
Unmet needs cause harm
What it looks like
Not physical; expressed as requirements, gaps and assessments.
How it is recognised
Basic needs such as food and shelter
Needs assessments and plans
Wants are desires rather than requirements
Related models
is a kind of - category
is assessed by - method
is related to - basic need
is contrasted with - related concept
In practice
Families and kinds
basic physical needs
psychological and social needs
special educational needs
clinical needs
business and user needs
Standards and regulation
Social protection and welfare law
Special educational needs law
UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Failure modes and hazards
Unmet basic needs
Delays in assessments
Treating needs as preferences
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.need-object
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Basic Basic needs.
Urgent needs first.
Urgent
Food and shelter.
Urgent
Urgent basic needs.
- Does someone lack food, safe shelter, heating or water right now? boundary
- Which food banks, shelters or emergency welfare services can help today? action
Benefits
Financial support.
Benefits
Financial support.
- Which benefits or grants might help meet basic needs here? provenance
- Where can free advice be found? provenance
Frameworks Theories of needs.
Frameworks are attributed.
Theories
Needs theories.
Theories
Needs theories.
- How do frameworks such as Maslow hierarchy or capability approaches describe needs, and what are their critiques? provenance
- Are they empirically supported? boundary
Rights
Rights-based view.
Rights
Rights-based view.
- Which needs are recognised as rights under international law? provenance
- How are they enforced? provenance
Education Special educational needs.
Processes vary.
SEN
Support in school.
SEN
Special educational needs.
- How can parents request a special educational needs assessment here, in general terms? provenance
- Which independent advice services exist? provenance
Health
Clinical need.
Health
Clinical need.
- How is clinical need assessed for services or medicines? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own care? boundary
Assessment Needs analysis.
Assessment guides action.
Method
Needs assessment.
Method
Needs assessment.
- How should a needs assessment be designed for this community or product? action
- Which data sources help? provenance
Shortage
Supply shortages.
Shortage
Shortages.
- Is there an official shortage of this medicine or product, according to regulators? provenance
- What alternatives do authorities advise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should kinds of need be separate entries?
- How should support services be localised?
- How should needs frameworks be attributed?