mental health
Figure 1 shows the median number of human resources
for mental health reported in Atlas 2011,9 separated by
income groups of countries. Globally, nurses were the
largest workforce category in the mental health system,
with a median of 4·95 nurses per 100 000 population,
followed by psychiatrists (1·27 per 100 000 popula tion).
Although numbers of psychologists and social workers
were much smaller