How size matters: exploring the association between quality of mental health services and catchment area size

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Number of care units (BSICs^a) and different MTC^b sorted by providers legal status

Catchment Area	Size of catchment area population	Public Corporation		Third Sector		Private Company		Different MTC
Catchment Area	Size of catchment area population	BSIC	Different MTC	BSIC	Different MTC	BSIC	Different MTC	Different MTC
Länsi-Uusimaa (1)	35296	13	11	6	4	4	2	16
Lohja (2)	70379	17	8	14	7	9	3	16
Hyvinkää (3)	139734	41	13	37	15	16	2	26
Porvoo (4)	74611	17	8	20	7	6	2	13
Helsinki (5)	501929	94	16	93	26	5	3	38
Jorvi (6)	230005	29	16	29	13	11	5	27
Peijas (7)	187332	34	15	32	11	11	3	23
Carea (8)	143265	38	13	66	18	12	4	24
Eksote (9)	109379	34	16	30	8	9	4	23
Turku (10)	151616	34	12	44	19	15	6	32
Turku (10)	128039	52	17	42	15	11	7	21
Vakka-Suomi (12)	81392	25	8	14	5	9	6	19
Turunmaa (13)	18200	8	3	3	1	2	2	6
Total BSICs^c	1871178	436		430		120
%		44 %		44 %		12 %
Different MTC			41		52		14	65
%			63 %		80 %		22 %	100 %

^a BSIC = Basic Stable Input of Care; i.e. the organizational units that provide the services, total BSICs are in Table 1
^b Different MTC (main types of care) in ESMS-R (European Service Mapping Schedule-reviSed) branches (N = 89)
^c Information services (N = 21, 2 %) and Internet and State Hospital units (N = 3) are not shown but counted to the total units

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