• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 hours ago

    In how many countries is mental health treatment covered and on par with other healthcare treatments? Good psychiatrists are often in short supply in comparison to MD.

    • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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      10 hours ago

      That’s genuinely a great question that will take me time to recompile.

      Good psychiatrists are often in short supply in comparison to MD.

      That’s a supply×demand question, because IIRC 1 good psychologist should only have their dunbar number of patients. So for a country of 342,034,432 people, the state needs to invest in 2,280,230+≈ PhD.s at a rate that competes with child births, sick days (pandemics), emergencies, etc… When a state forgets to invest on it’s own health, you get the pandemic you’re experiencing.