Slovenia

Slavko Ziherl; Blanka Kores Plesnicar

doi:10.1192/S1749367600002101

Slovenia

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018

Slavko Ziherl and

Blanka Kores Plesnicar

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Slavko Ziherl: Affiliation:
University Psychiatric Hospital, Studenec 48, 1260 Ljubljana, Slovenia, email [email protected]
Blanka Kores Plesnicar: Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Clinical Centre Maribor, Slovenia, email [email protected]

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Slovenia, with an area of 20 000 km2 and a population of 2 million, is one of the smallest members of the European Union. It gained its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. The country has a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$27 300 per capita. (Largely because of its historical links with Western Europe, Slovenia has a higher GPD compared with other countries in transition in Central Europe.) The health budget represents 8.4% of GDP. Slovenia has a low birth rate and an ageing population. It is divided into 210 municipalities; however, the re organisation of government into several separate regions with more administrative and economic autonomy is in progress. The prevalence of mental illness is comparable to that in other European countries, although there are high levels of alcoholism and suicide.

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Information: International Psychiatry , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 67 - 68

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