Author/Editor		Marušič, Andrej; Turčin, Arijana
Title		Mental health reforms in Slovenia awaited
Type		članek
Source		Ment Health Reforms
Publication year		2004
Volume		str. 18-20
Language		eng
Abstract		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).
Descriptors		MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH CARE REFORM COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INSTITUTIONALIZATION HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC SLOVENIA