In preparations of a plan.

People will talk about the needs of a community or organization. Such needs might include demands for a certain government program or entity, for a particular type of business, or for individuals with particular skills.
Their view goes beyond the emphasis on psychology. It might be said that an individual's needs are representative of the costs of being human within a society.

A person who does not have his or her needs fulfilled -- i.e., a "needy" person -- will function poorly in society.

Thus, the plan should be to give the people what they ask for because human development is characterised by the fact that in the process of meeting their needs, humans develop new needs, implying that at least to some extent they make and remake their own nature. For that satisfaction of their needs, which makes the human being a universal natural being capable to turn the whole nature into the subject of his/her needs and his/her activity, and develops his/her needs and abilities (essential human forces) and develops himself/herself (a universal being) who experienced suffering in the process of learning to meet their needs.

In this view, each person has an objective interest in avoiding serious harm that prevents the endeavor to attain his or her vision of what's good, no matter what that is exactly. This attempt requires the ability to participate in the societal setting in which an individual lives. More specifically, each of the needs to have both physical health and personal autonomy. The latter refers to the capacity to make informed choices about what should be done and how to implement that. This requires mental health, cognitive skills, and chances to participate in the society's activities and a system of collective decision-making.
How to satisfy such needs in the view represented by a political economy in the context of social assistance provided by the welfare state and with medical ethics to meet the civics of human need?
The point is to present a spectrum of broad categories of "intermediate needs" that define how the need for physical health and personal autonomy are fulfilled, such as:
Adequate nutritional food and water
Adequate protective housing
A safe environment for working
A safe physical environment
Appropriate health care
Security in childhood,
Significant primary relationships with others
Physical security
Economic security
Safe birth control and child-bearing
Appropriate basic and trans-cultural education.

How are the details of their needs to a full satisfaction determined?
That calls for a presentation of a rational identification of needs using the most up-to-date scientific knowledge; the use of the actual experienced individuals in their everyday lives and a functional democratic decision-making.
One of the problems with a psychological theory of needs is that conceptions of "need" may vary radically between different cultures or different parts of the same society. One person's view of need may easily be seen as paternalistic by another.