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Some Influences on the Intercounty Variation in Irish Psychiatric Hospitalization Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Dermot Walsh  and
Brendan Walsh
Dermot Walsh
Affiliation:
St. Loman's Hospital, Palmerstown, Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Brendan Walsh
Affiliation:
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, U.S.A.
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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.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 506 , January 1968 , pp. 15 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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