Mental health services in Norway

Jan Olav Johannessen; Bjarte Stubhaug; Jan Skandsen

doi:10.1192/S1749367600007347

Mental health services in Norway

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018

Jan Olav Johannessen ,

Bjarte Stubhaug and

Jan Skandsen

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Jan Olav Johannessen: Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Stavanger, Post Box 1163 Hillevaag, 4095 Stavanger, Norway, email jojo@sir.no
Bjarte Stubhaug: Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bergen, Norway; President of the Norwegian Psychiatric Association
Jan Skandsen: Affiliation:
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Stavanger; President of the Norwegian Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Few countries (if any) have experienced the abundance of material welfare Norway has had for the last decades. The report of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for 2004 places Norway on the very top of the list of ‘best countries to live in’. One might therefore expect that mental disorders would not thrive in Norway, but this is not so.

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Information: International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 9 , July 2005 , pp. 13 - 15

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