Why do psychiatric patients in Korea stay longer in hospital?

Korea is the only developed country that saw an increase in the number of psychiatric beds with the longest average length of stay of psychiatric patients for the past decades. This phenomenon can be explained regarding the payment system, the law, and society. Korea is in a critical position concer...

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Autor principal: Kim, Agnus M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28066503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0110-6
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description Korea is the only developed country that saw an increase in the number of psychiatric beds with the longest average length of stay of psychiatric patients for the past decades. This phenomenon can be explained regarding the payment system, the law, and society. Korea is in a critical position concerning mental health policy. How it paves the way for reducing psychiatric admissions will provide a model for rearranging the interests of different social groups for the sake of a higher value, that of human rights.
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spelling pubmed-52102882017-01-06 Why do psychiatric patients in Korea stay longer in hospital? Kim, Agnus M. Int J Ment Health Syst Commentary Korea is the only developed country that saw an increase in the number of psychiatric beds with the longest average length of stay of psychiatric patients for the past decades. This phenomenon can be explained regarding the payment system, the law, and society. Korea is in a critical position concerning mental health policy. How it paves the way for reducing psychiatric admissions will provide a model for rearranging the interests of different social groups for the sake of a higher value, that of human rights. BioMed Central 2017-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5210288/ /pubmed/28066503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0110-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Why do psychiatric patients in Korea stay longer in hospital?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28066503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0110-6
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