Medicare Requirements for Home Health Services To qualify for home health services, Medicare beneficiaries must (1) be homebound; (2) need intermittent skilled nursing care or physical, speech, or occupational therapy; (3) be under the care of a physician; and (4) be under a
In research, population is a precise group of people or objects that possesses the characteristic that is questioned in a study. To be able to clearly define the target population, the researcher must identify all the specific qualities that are common to all the people or objects in focus.
Population Ecology. A population is a group of individuals belonging to the same species and living in the same geographic area at a given time. They use the same natural resources and are affected by similar environmental factors. Population ecology examines the factors affecting population density and distribution. Population density is the number of individuals in a given area or volume. Population distribution is how spread out the individuals are in that area. Basically it is how populations change over time.