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Mental healthcare in the Slovak Republic: current situation and future challenges

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jozef Dragašek  and
Alexander Nawka
Jozef Dragašek
Affiliation:
1st Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of P. J. Safarik, Košice, Slovak Republic, email jozef.dragasek@upjs.sk
Alexander Nawka
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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The Slovak Republic is a landlocked country in central Europe with a population of over 5 million. The Czech Republic and Austria lie to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is the capital, Bratislava; the second largest city is Košnice. Slovakia is a member of the European Union, the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization, among other international organisations. The majority of the inhabitants of Slovakia are ethnically Slovak (85.8%). Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority (9.5%). With a gross domestic product (GDP) of €63.3 billion in 2009, Slovakia is classified as a middle-income country. In that year total health expenditure represented 6.7% of GDP (Pažitny, 2008), 34% of which went on pharmaceuticals, the highest share among all OECD countries (World Health Organization, 2010).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 88 - 90
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