Wang A G
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1981 Aug;64(2):150-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1981.tb00769.x.
The Faroe Islands are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean between Norway and Iceland inhabited by about 42,000 people. They are considered a nation with home rule within the Danish Kingdom. A Psychiatric Department was not established on the islands until 1969. Before this, psychiatric patients were referred to the local General Hospital and about half of the patients in each diagnostic group were sent on the Psychiatric Hospital in Nykøbing on Zealand, Denmark. Since the establishment of the department, admissions have increased in all diagnostic groups, especially in the group of senile psychoses. The total increase amounts to 2.4 times the admission rates of psychiatric cases to the General Hospital and 4.4 times the admission rates to the Psychiatric Hospital in Nykøbing in the last years prior to the start of the local service. The outpatient department has grown steadily, the patients attending are distributed in diagnostic groups similar to Danish outpatient departments.
法罗群岛是北大西洋上位于挪威和冰岛之间的一群岛屿，约有4.2万人居住于此。它们被视为丹麦王国内享有自治权的一个国家。直到1969年该群岛才设立精神科。在此之前，精神病患者被转诊至当地综合医院，每个诊断组中约一半的患者被送往丹麦西兰岛尼科宾的精神病院。自该科室设立以来，所有诊断组的住院人数均有所增加，尤其是老年精神病组。总增长幅度相当于当地服务开始前最后几年综合医院精神病例住院率的2.4倍，以及尼科宾精神病院住院率的4.4倍。门诊部稳步发展，前来就诊的患者在诊断组中的分布与丹麦门诊部相似。
