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State of mental healthcare systems in Eastern Europe: do we really understand what is going on?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dzmitry Krupchanka  and
Petr Winkler
Dzmitry Krupchanka
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic, email dzmitry.krupchanka@nudz.cz
Petr Winkler
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic
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The article examines the current state of mental healthcare systems in countries of Eastern Europe and derives implications for future research and service development. Analysis of available statistics from the World Health Organization's Mental Health Atlas suggests the need for better-quality data collection. Nonetheless, there appear to be insufficient resources allocated to mental health, lack of involvement of service users in policy-making and, to a large extent, systems continue to rely on mental hospitals. Based on the data presented, a set of directions for future reforms was drafted.

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BJPsych International , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , November 2016 , pp. 96 - 99
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016

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