Table 3 Hospital days and expenditures for alcohol treatment (general, mental health and specialty hospitals), for 15 EU countries, 2010
From: Public spending for illegal drug and alcohol treatment in hospitals: an EU cross-country comparison
Country | Public expenditure per hospital day (euros) | Hospital days for alcohol treatment per 1,000 capita | Proportion of hospital days attributable to alcohol treatment (%) | Alcohol treatment expenditure by hospitals (million euros) | Alcohol treatment expenditure by hospitals, per capita (euros) | Alcohol treatment expenditure by hospitals, as percentage of GDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Central-western and western country group (Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and UK missing) | ||||||
Austria* | 507 | 47 | 1.88% | 198 | 23.7 | 0.069% |
Germany | 391 | 49 | 2.16% | 1578 | 19.3 | 0.063% |
Mean (SD) Central-western and western country group | 449 (82) | 48 (2) | 2.02% (0.2%) | 888 (976) | 21.5 (3.1) | 0.066% (0.004%) |
Central-eastern and eastern country group (Estonia missing) | ||||||
Slovenia | 432 | 34 | 2.69% | 30 | 14.5 | 0.084% |
Slovakia | 165 | 58 | 4.11% | 51 | 9.5 | 0.078% |
Poland | 167 | 51 | 4.15% | 325 | 8.5 | 0.092% |
Hungary | 121 | 31 | 1.76% | 38 | 3.8 | 0.039% |
Latvia* | 140 | 19 | 1.68% | 6 | 2.7 | 0.033% |
Czech Republic | 211 | 53 | 2.54% | 118 | 11.3 | 0.079% |
Lithuania | 113 | 19 | 1.08% | 7 | 2.2 | 0.026% |
Romania | 81 | 13 | 0.73% | 22 | 1.0 | 0.018% |
Bulgaria | 69 | 13 | 0.87% | 7 | 0.9 | 0.019% |
Mean (SD) central-eastern and eastern country group | 166 (109) | 32 (18) | 2.18% (1.30%) | 67 (103) | 6.0 (5.0) | 0.052% (0.030%) |
Nordic countries (Denmark missing) | ||||||
Sweden | 1532 | 11 | 1.10% | 155 | 16.6 | 0.044% |
Finland* | 428 | 25 | 1.19% | 57 | 10.7 | 0.032% |
Mean (SD) nordic countries | 980 (780) | 18 (10) | 1.14% (0.06%) | 106 (69) | 13.6 (4.1) | 0.038% (0.009%) |
Southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain missing) | ||||||
Portugal | 1045 | 3†| 0.49% | 29 | 2.7 | 0.017% |
Cyprus* | 936 | 0.03†| 0.01% | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.001% |
Mean (SD) southern Europe | 990 (78) | 1.3 (1.8) | 0.25% (0.35%) | 14 (20) | 1.4 (1.8) | 0.009% (0.011%) |
Mean (SD) EU-15 | 423 (429) | 28 (19) | 1.76% (1.21%) | 175 (399) | 8.5 (7.4) | 0.046% (0.029%) |