Kim Agnus M
Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-799 South Korea.
Int J Ment Health Syst. 2017 Jan 3;11:2. doi: 10.1186/s13033-016-0110-6. eCollection 2017.
Korea is the only developed country that saw an increase in the number of psychiatric beds with the longest average length of stay of psychiatric patients for the past decades. This phenomenon can be explained regarding the payment system, the law, and society. Korea is in a critical position concerning mental health policy. How it paves the way for reducing psychiatric admissions will provide a model for rearranging the interests of different social groups for the sake of a higher value, that of human rights.
韩国是过去几十年来唯一一个精神科病床数量增加且精神科患者平均住院时间最长的发达国家。这种现象可以从支付系统、法律和社会等方面来解释。韩国在心理健康政策方面处于关键地位。它如何为减少精神科住院人数铺平道路，将为了更高的价值（即人权）重新调整不同社会群体的利益提供一个范例。
