Statistics Norway

Specialist health services, psychiatry

1   Activity and man-years, psychiatric institutions. The whole country. 2002-2006
  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Psychiatric institutions for adults          
Beds in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults 5 439 5 296 5 169 5 039 4 990
Man-years1 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults 15 058 15 325 15 596 15 928 16 533
Bed-days in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults 1 764 007 1 702 884 1 627 694 1 601 523 1 575 915
Discharges in psychiatric institutions for adults 36 920 40 469 42 065 43 854 47 246
Out-patient consultations2 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults5  618 256  709 523  756 918  888 080  956 202
           
Psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents          
Beds in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents  312  337  331  331  335
Man-years1 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents 2 866 2 968 3 033 3 203 3 507
Bed-days in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents 80 857 89 570 87 386 87 880 84 221
Discharges in psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents 1 243 1 826 1 776 2 461 2 482
Out-patient consultations2 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents5  219 487  272 211  297 562  439 144  512 915
           
Admittance of overnight patients according to section. 2002-2006. Numbers3          
Total number of admittances 38 464 42 197 43 774 47 172 49 829
§ 2-1 Voluntary overnight stays 28 429 31 785 34 388 36 401 39 753
§ 2-2 Voluntary overnight stays with contract  762  514  373  350  442
§ 3-8 and 3-6 Forced observation with overnight stay 4 507 4 940 4 595 5 687 4 472
§ 3-8 and 3-1 Forced psychiatric health care with overnight stay 4 432 4 489 4 322 4 597 5 077
Sentenced to psychiatric health care with overnight stay 15 30 33 26 30
Admittances pursuant to other laws4, and not distributed admittances  305  440 63  111 55
1  Man-years are full-time employees plus part-time employees (converted into full-time equivalents) at December 31. Overtime is not included.
2  Out-patient consultations by repayment base.
3  The Act of 2 July 1999 No. 62 relating to the establishment and implementation of psychiatric health.
4  The Act relating to child welfare services and relating to social services.
5  Changed rules for the repayment base from 2005 gives some telephone consultations repayment.

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