Avtor/Urednik     Marušič, Andrej; Turčin, Arijana
Naslov     Mental health reforms in Slovenia awaited
Tip     članek
Vir     Ment Health Reforms
Leto izdaje     2004
Obseg     str. 18-20
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     In 2002, a Central European psychiatric journal "Psychiatria Danubina", published research on changes in psychiatric and psychosocial care in different European countries, with specific references to middle and middle-Eastern Europe (Hofmann, Bandis, Darovec, et al, 2002). A task force of the Danubian Psychiatric Association collected data of psychiatric hospital-based and community-based care aiming for documentation of changes after 1989. Because of the changes in political and economic systems in the so-called new democracies, structural reforms of psychiatric care, reduction in the size of hospitals, and a shift to community-based care was to be expected like in other parts of Europe before 1989. Contributions came from 22 European countries. The data depicted the development of hospital-based care and a slow shift to community-based services; beds in hospitals were redneed and admissions increased. Data on health expenses in relation to the GDP between 1990 and 1999 depicted the ongoing difficulties of some countries to finance new forms of psychiatric care and modernizing hospital-based care (Hofmann, et al, 2002).
Deskriptorji     MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH CARE REFORM
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
INSTITUTIONALIZATION
HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC
SLOVENIA