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Greek psychiatric services have been characterized till recently by their centralization.Athens and Thessaloniki, the two big cities with a total of approximately 4 million people, out of the country’s 10 millions, have been housing 75% of the psychiatric beds. Twenty out of the 52 districts have no psychiatric personnel either in the local city hospitals or the insurance outpatient services.
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Ierodiakonou, C.S. (1985). Experience of a Mobile Unit in a Greek Rural Community Mental Health Centre. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Epidemiology and Community Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4700-2_56
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