{"id":62170,"date":"2020-12-02T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=62170"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:10:29","slug":"goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In psychology, a commodity or condition capable of reducing or eliminating a drive.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In health planning, a quantified statement of a desired future state or condition, such as an infant mortality of loss than 20 per thousand live births, a physician to population ratio greater than four per thousand, or average access time for emergency medical services less than 20 minutes. Health planning formulates goals and seeks to achieve them. 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