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| | Psychiatric Beds and Professionals in China | | 2005-2-22 0:53:30 Institute of Mental Health, Peking Unive Liu Jin M.D, Ph.D |  Psychiatric Beds and Professionals
Total psychiatric beds per 10 000 population 0.98
Psychiatric beds in mental hospitals per 10 000 population 0.7
Psychiatric beds in general hospitals per 10 000 population 0.1
Psychiatric beds in other settings per 10 000 population 0.09
Number of psychiatrists per 100 000 population 1.1
Number of neurosurgeons per 100 000 population
Number of psychiatric nurses per 100 000 population 2
Number of neurologists per 100 000 population
Number of psychologists per 100 000 population
Number of social workers per 100 000 population
Three ministries: Public Health, Civil Affairs (i.e. Welfare) and Public Security (i.e. police) provide inpatient services. Some mental health units also exist under the Ministry of Industry and Mining, and Peoples Liberation Army. The Ministry of public Health provides services mainly to acutely ill patients and Ministry of Civil Affairs, mainly to chronically ill patients. "Four men leading groups" have been set up to improve coordination between the three main Ministries and the China Disabled Persons Federation, however formal horizontal linkages are not very strong. Setting up of private hospitals has been permitted since 1985. There are 22 specialized psychiatric hospitals for the management of mentally ill offenders. There are a few (around 150) child psychiatry beds. About 150 qualified child psychiatrists are practicing in cities. There is no formal system of training clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers and occupational therapists. Some mental health staff is leaving the sector because financial crisis at psychiatric hospitals (due to low occupancy rates) results in much lower incomes than for staff in other medical disciplines.
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Ministry of Health, (2003) No.013
ICP:No.040657