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Rehabilitation in the Nordic countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

P Munk-Jørgensen
P Munk-Jørgensen*
Affiliation:
Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Department of Psychiatric Demography, University of Aarhus, Psychiatric Hospital In Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, DK-8240Risskov, Denmark
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Summary

Since the beginning of the 1980s the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have gone through a process of decentralization. This process has taken place at a different pace and according to slightly varying decentralization models, but in all five of the countries the reduction in capacity of psychiatric hospitals has leveled out, whereas the establishing of decentralized treatment functions are not yet sufficiently developed. Furthermore, all five countries focus on rehabilitation of the most severe mentally ill. Examples of different models from the Nordic countries are mentioned.

Keywords

Nordic countriesdecentralizationrehabilitation
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Research Article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 11 , Issue S2: The rehabilitation of patients with long-term psychiatric disorders , 1996 , pp. 101s - 104s
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1996

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