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Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut
INTRODUCTION: Greenland and the Canadian territory of Nunavut appear to have a different prevalence of forensic psychiatric patients, despite their comparable population and landmass sizes. Both are mainly inhabited by Inuit with a similar cultural and social background. Both have a universal health...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475776/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1007 |
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author | Upfold, C. Jentz, C. Chaimowitz, G. Heilmann, P. Nathanielsen, N. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Greenland and the Canadian territory of Nunavut appear to have a different prevalence of forensic psychiatric patients, despite their comparable population and landmass sizes. Both are mainly inhabited by Inuit with a similar cultural and social background. Both have a universal health care system. They differ, however, concerning the supply of mental health services and legislation concerning forensic psychiatric patients. OBJECTIVES: To compare the prevalence and clinical characteristics of forensic psychiatric patients in Greenland and Nunavut. METHODS: Data is obtained from health records, forensic psychiatric evaluations and court acts from all forensic psychiatric patients 18 years or older living in Greenland or admitted to the University Hospital Aarhus (N≈100). Data extracted from Nunavut Review Board hospital reports will be used to describe the patient population from Nunavut (N≈15). Patient characteristics include gender, age, marital status, education, diagnosis of mental illness, medical treatment, family history of mental illness and serious adverse childhood experiences. Public documents concerning health systems and legislation will be identified through literature search. RESULTS: Patient characteristics from the two patient populations, as well as visualizations of the differences and similarities between the respective health care and legislative systems will be presented at the conference. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a comprehensive clinical, socio-demographic and forensic comparison of the forensic psychiatric populations in Greenland and Nunavut, Canada. To our knowledge, it will be the first to describe and compare forensic psychiatric populations in the Arctic. |
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spelling | pubmed-94757762022-09-29 Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut Upfold, C. Jentz, C. Chaimowitz, G. Heilmann, P. Nathanielsen, N. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: Greenland and the Canadian territory of Nunavut appear to have a different prevalence of forensic psychiatric patients, despite their comparable population and landmass sizes. Both are mainly inhabited by Inuit with a similar cultural and social background. Both have a universal health care system. They differ, however, concerning the supply of mental health services and legislation concerning forensic psychiatric patients. OBJECTIVES: To compare the prevalence and clinical characteristics of forensic psychiatric patients in Greenland and Nunavut. METHODS: Data is obtained from health records, forensic psychiatric evaluations and court acts from all forensic psychiatric patients 18 years or older living in Greenland or admitted to the University Hospital Aarhus (N≈100). Data extracted from Nunavut Review Board hospital reports will be used to describe the patient population from Nunavut (N≈15). Patient characteristics include gender, age, marital status, education, diagnosis of mental illness, medical treatment, family history of mental illness and serious adverse childhood experiences. Public documents concerning health systems and legislation will be identified through literature search. RESULTS: Patient characteristics from the two patient populations, as well as visualizations of the differences and similarities between the respective health care and legislative systems will be presented at the conference. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a comprehensive clinical, socio-demographic and forensic comparison of the forensic psychiatric populations in Greenland and Nunavut, Canada. To our knowledge, it will be the first to describe and compare forensic psychiatric populations in the Arctic. Cambridge University Press 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9475776/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1007 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (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. |
spellingShingle | Abstract Upfold, C. Jentz, C. Chaimowitz, G. Heilmann, P. Nathanielsen, N. Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
title | Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
title_full | Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
title_fullStr | Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
title_full_unstemmed | Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
title_short | Forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
title_sort | forensic psychiatry in the arctic – a comparative study of patient characteristics, health care system and legislation in greenland and nunavut |
topic | Abstract |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475776/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1007 |
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