Mental and behavioural outcome of inter-ethnic adoptees: a review of the literature.

Selective examples from the literature on interethnic adoption are reviewed focusing on the various factors influencing adoption results. Late age at adoption, neglect and institutionalisation are risk factors for the psychological and behavioural problems in adoptees and families. The review also analyses methodological issues and suggests ways of rectifying them.

[Dementia and psychiatric service].

The study objective was to describe the service provision in geriatric psychiatry in 1997 and the trends in admission patterns for the elderly to psychiatric hospitals in Denmark from 1988 to 1996. Information concerning admission pattern was obtained from the Danish Psychiatric Case Register. The information on the supply of geriatric psychiatric services was collected by a questionnaire to the individual geriatric psychiatric departments.

[The elderly in general psychiatry].

The Danish National Board of Health recommends that the counties offer psychogeriatric services. The target group for geriatric psychiatry in the County of North Jutland only concerns elderly people with severe dementia. It has been our aim to describe and discuss the geriatric psychiatric supply of services and admission pattern for elderly with psychiatric morbidity in the County of North Jutland.

[Late abortions in the county of Northern Jutland].

Applications for termination of pregnancy beyond 12 weeks have been evaluated for the period 1992-1993 in the County of Northern Jutland. During this period the number of abortions performed later than 12 weeks of pregnancy has been reduced compared to the findings in 1986, while the total number of abortions performed in the county is unchanged. Abortions allowed on genetic indications have increased by 100% a year.