Psychiatric beds in European Hospitals

Differences in European countries (EU28) regarding psychiatric treatment. Possible causes:

• Social stigma.
• Less attention from public.

We found that the number of beds dedicated to psychiatric treatment in hospitals per 100,000 inhabitants varies much more between countries than the total number of beds in hospitals per 100,000 inhabitants.

Data obtained from Eurostat.

• Hospital beds

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=tps00046

• Psychiatric care beds in hospitals

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=tps00047

• Missing 2011 data from Netherlands, Greece, Denmark & Luxembourg

Coefficient of Variation \( (\sigma/\mu) \) between European countries of the Total number of beds in Hospitals:

sd(beds$Hospital) / mean(beds$Hospital)

[1] 0.3156494

Coefficient of Variation \( (\sigma/\mu) \) between European countries of the number of beds in Hospitals reserved for Psychiatric treatment:

sd(beds$Psychiatric) / mean(beds$Psychiatric)

[1] 0.5116864