Table 3 |
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Country comparisons for various measures of mental health service provision. |
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Compare by Countries |
United Kingdom |
Sweden |
Denmark |
Norway |
Germany |
Austria |
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Rates of consultation in past year in our study |
High |
Medium |
High |
High |
Low |
Medium |
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Rates of current treatment in our study |
High |
Medium |
High |
Medium |
Low |
Medium |
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Presence of therapeutic drug policy/essential list of drugs |
present |
absent |
absent |
present |
not available |
absent |
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Most important method of financing mental health care |
tax based |
tax based |
tax based |
social insurance |
social insurance |
social insurance |
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Presence of mental health care facilities in primary care |
present |
present |
present |
present |
present |
present |
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Presence of community care in mental health |
present |
present |
present |
present |
present |
present |
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Number of psychiatrists/100,000 population |
11 |
20 |
16 |
20 |
7.3 |
10 |
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Number of psychologists working in mental health/100,000 population |
9 |
76 |
85 |
68 |
not available |
36.9 |
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Number of psychiatric nurses/100,000 population |
104 |
32 |
59 |
42 |
52 |
38.9 |
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Number of social workers working in mental health/100,000 population |
58 |
not available |
7 |
not available |
not available |
103.4 |
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Source: Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence. Mental Health Resources in the World. Project ATLAS. 2002. Geneva, World Health Organization. http://cvdinfobase.ca/mh-atlas webcite |
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Powell et al. BMC Psychiatry 2003 3:19 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-3-19 |
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