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State of psychiatry in Denmark

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  • Jeanett Østerby Bauer, Neuro- og Sansefag, Danmark
  • Niels Okkels
  • Povl Munk-Jørgensen, Danmark
Danish psychiatry has gone through profound changes over the past two to three decades, reducing inpatient-based treatment and increasing outpatient treatment markedly. The number of patients treated has almost doubled, and the diagnostic profile has broadened, now including a substantial number of common mental disorders, in particular depression and anxiety. Furthermore, 'new' diagnostic groups are represented in the treatment statistics with steeply increasing incidences, e.g. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and eating disorders, especially in the outpatient part of the statistics. Over the same 30 years, the number of available beds has been reduced by 60-70%; however, as the length of stay of inpatients has been reduced markedly, the departments are still able to treat a high number of patients. The financial budgeting of psychiatry is not increasing equivalently to the somatic specialities, handicapping development in psychiatry. Action has been taken to increase research activity in psychiatry. This is facilitated by an increasing interest among medical students and young graduate physicians attracted by the neuropsychiatric paradigm, rapidly implemented in Danish psychiatry.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftInternational Review of Psychiatry
Vol/bind24
Nummer4
Sider (fra-til)295-300
Antal sider6
ISSN0954-0261
DOI
StatusUdgivet - aug. 2012

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