Table 3.
Country comparisons for various measures of mental health service provision.
| Compare by Countries | United Kingdom | Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Germany | Austria |
| Rates of consultation in past year in our study | High | Medium | High | High | Low | Medium |
| Rates of current treatment in our study | High | Medium | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
| Presence of therapeutic drug policy/essential list of drugs | present | absent | absent | present | not available | absent |
| Most important method of financing mental health care | tax based | tax based | tax based | social insurance | social insurance | social insurance |
| Presence of mental health care facilities in primary care | present | present | present | present | present | present |
| Presence of community care in mental health | present | present | present | present | present | present |
| Number of psychiatrists/100,000 population | 11 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 7.3 | 10 |
| Number of psychologists working in mental health/100,000 population | 9 | 76 | 85 | 68 | not available | 36.9 |
| Number of psychiatric nurses/100,000 population | 104 | 32 | 59 | 42 | 52 | 38.9 |
| Number of social workers working in mental health/100,000 population | 58 | not available | 7 | not available | not available | 103.4 |
Source: Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence. Mental Health Resources in the World. Project ATLAS. 2002. Geneva, World Health Organization. http://cvdinfobase.ca/mh-atlas