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Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Netherlands

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  • Alessia Forti

    (OECD)

  • Chris Nas

    (Dutch Association of Mental Health and Addiction Care)

  • Alex van Geldrop

    (Dutch Association of Mental Health and Addiction Care)

  • Gerdien Franx

    (Trimbos Institute, Netherlands Institution of Mental Health and Addiction)

  • Ionela Petrea

    (Trimbos Institute, Netherlands Institution of Mental Health and Addiction)

  • Ype van Strien

    (Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Netherlands)

  • Patrick Jeurissen

    (Radboud University Medical Center)

Abstract

As part of a wider project on mental health in OECD countries, a series of descriptive profiles have been prepared, intended to provide descriptive, easily comprehensible, highly informative accounts of the mental health systems of OECD countries. These profiles, entitled ‘Mental Health Analysis Profiles’ (MHAPs), will be able to inform discussion and reflection and provide an introduction to and a synthesised account of mental health in a given country. Each MHAP follows the same template, and whilst the MhAPs are stand-alone profiles, loose cross-country comparison using the MhAPs is possible and encouraged. The Dutch mental health system is highly institutionalised and has a large number of psychiatric beds compared to other OECD countries. Nonetheless, government reforms have aimed at shifting the axis of the system from bed-based hospital services to more integrated mental health services and community-based services. Structural changes to the Dutch mental health system, together with recent government policies that aim to improve access to mental health services, have led to decreasing the treatment gap for mental disorders but also to increasing the expenditures associated with mental health care up until 2011. Lancée dans le cadre d’un projet plus vaste consacré à la santé mentale dans les pays de l'OCDE, la série de profils « Santé mentale : profils d’analyse » (Mental Health Analysis Profiles - MHAP) vise à décrire de manière simple et détaillée les systèmes de santé mentale des pays de l'OCDE. Ces profils, qui étayeront les examens et les réflexions qui seront menés, feront le point sur la situation d’un pays donné dans le domaine de la santé mentale. Les profils MHAP sont indépendants les uns des autres mais suivent le même modèle : il est donc possible, et recommandé, de les utiliser pour procéder à des comparaisons entre pays. Le système de santé mentale néerlandais s’appuie en grande partie sur les soins en établissement et compte un grand nombre de lits de psychiatrie par rapport à d'autres pays de l'OCDE. Néanmoins, les réformes entreprises par le gouvernement visent à réorienter le système de santé mentale des services hospitaliers vers des services spécialisés et des services de proximité plus intégrés. Les réformes structurelles qui ont été menées, ainsi que les récentes mesures visant à améliorer l'accès aux services de santé mentale, ont permis de réduire les lacunes en matière de traitement des troubles mentaux, mais elles ont aussi fait augmenter les dépenses liées aux soins de santé mentale jusqu'en 2011.

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  • Alessia Forti & Chris Nas & Alex van Geldrop & Gerdien Franx & Ionela Petrea & Ype van Strien & Patrick Jeurissen, 2014. "Mental Health Analysis Profiles (MhAPs): Netherlands," OECD Health Working Papers 73, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:elsaad:73-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5jz158z60dzn-en
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    1. Ringdal, Charlotte & Rootjes, Frank, 2022. "Depression and labor supply: Evidence from the Netherlands," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 45(C).

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