Publications by authors named "Sabine Delhey"
Article Synopsis
- This study looked at how many psychiatric hospital beds are needed compared to how many are actually available.
- Researchers gathered information from many sources to find out the trends in bed needs over time.
- They found that the need for beds went down until 2000, and since then, it has remained steady but is still higher than the number of beds that really exist.
Objective: Latin America has undergone major changes in psychiatric services over the past three decades. The authors aimed to assess the availability of service data and changes in psychiatric services in this region during the 1990-2020 period.
Methods: The authors formed a research network to collect data on psychiatric service indicators gathered between 1990 and 2020 from national registries in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.