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service delivery system

a complex, interrelated set of organizational (i.e., people and providers) and technological inputs and processes, resulting in the provision of such services as mental health interventions, public health programs, social welfare, and education.

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common region

common region

a recently introduced gestalt principle of organization, stating that objects sharing a common bounded region of space appear to belong together and tend to be perceived as a distinct group. For example, animals in a fenced-in enclosure are more likely to be seen as a group than are the same distribution of animals arrayed in open space. Also called law of common region; principle of common region. [proposed in 1992 by U.S. psychologist Stephen E. Palmer (1948–  )]