Statistics Norway

Specialist health service, psychiatry

1 Activity and man-years, psychiatric institutions. The whole country. 2002-2008
  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 20086
Psychiatric institutions for adults              
Beds in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults 5 439 5 296 5 169 5 039 4 990 4 769 4 557
Man-years1 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults 15 058 15 325 15 596 15 928 16 533 16 705 14 398
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 1 482 824 1 405 959
Discharges in psychiatric institutions for adults 36 920 40 469 42 065 43 854 47 246 47 055 49 861
Out-patient consultations2 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for adults5  618 256  709 523  756 918  888 080  956 202 1 008 600 1 139 933
               
Psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents              
Beds in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents  312  337  331  331  335  334  323
Man-years1 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents 2 866 2 968 3 033 3 203 3 507 3 682 3 035
Bed-days in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents 80 857 89 570 87 386 87 880 84 221 80 839 79 400
Discharges in psychiatric institutions for children and adolescents 1 243 1 826 1 776 2 461 2 482 2 099 2 186
Out-patient consultations2 in psychiatric institutions and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents5  219 487  272 211  297 562  439 144  512 915  563 441  617 790
               
Admittance of overnight patients according to section. 2002-2006. Numbers3              
Total number of admittances 38 464 42 197 43 774 47 172 49 829 48 857 51 054
§ 2-1 Voluntary overnight stays 28 429 31 785 34 388 36 401 39 753 39 132 41 655
§ 2-2 Voluntary overnight stays with contract  762  514  373  350  442  343  287
§3-5 1st paragraph and §3-2 Forced observation with overnight stay 4 507 4 940 4 595 5 687 4 472 4 442 4 084
§3-5 1st paragraph and §3-3 Forced psychiatric health care with overnight stay 4 432 4 489 4 322 4 597 5 077 4 869 4 953
Sentenced to psychiatric health care with overnight stay 15 30 33 26 30 30 31
Admittances pursuant to other laws4, and not distributed admittances  305  440 63  111 55 41 44
1  Man-years are full-time employees plus part-time employees (converted into full-time equivalents) at December 31.
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.
6  From 2008, statistics on personnel in the specialist health service are based on data from administrative registers. Previously the data were collected from questionnaires.

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