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Psychiatry in Germany

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Wolfgang Gaebel ,
Jürgen Zielasek  and
Ulrich Müller
Wolfgang Gaebel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Rhineland State Clinics, Bergische Landstrasse 2, D-40629, Düsseldorf, Germany, email wolfgang.gaebel@uni-duesseldorf.de
Jürgen Zielasek
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Rhineland State Clinics, Bergische Landstrasse 2, D-40629, Düsseldorf, Germany, email wolfgang.gaebel@uni-duesseldorf.de
Ulrich Müller
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Rhineland State Clinics, Bergische Landstrasse 2, D-40629, Düsseldorf, Germany, email wolfgang.gaebel@uni-duesseldorf.de
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Germany has an approximate area of 357 000 km2. Its population is 82.526 million. The life expectancy at birth is 75.6 years for men and 81.6 years for women (World Health Organization, 2005). The proportion of gross domestic product allocated to the health budget is 10.8%. The per capita total expenditure on health is $2820 (international dollars here and below) and the per capita government expenditure on health is $2113 (World Health Organization, 2005). A major factor in recent German history was reunification, which had a pronounced effect on the German healthcare system.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 61 - 63
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