Some Influences on the Intercounty Variation in Irish Psychiatric Hospitalization Rates
- 29 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 114 (506) , 15-20
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.114.506.15
Abstract
An earlier commentary on the level and regional variation of Irish hospitalized psychiatric illness was limited by the absence of age-specific and standardized data (Walsh and Walsh, 1968). The present paper presents age- and sex-standardized rates by county for 1959, and then suggests some socioeconomic influences in [partial explanation of the variation in these rates. Psychiatric services in Ireland are provided on a county basis: in eleven instances one hospital serves a single county, in six cases there is one hospital to two counties and the remaining hospital serves three counties.Keywords
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- Hospitalized Psychiatric Morbidity in Ireland: A Suggested ApproachThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1967