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mental counseling service and in 2021, has helped a total of 115,650 callers and assisted 18,108 potential suicide victims and directly prevented 827 suicide attempts.
4. The MOHW continued to implement reporting of all suicide-related cases, arranged outreach visits, helped people with risk of suicide. In 2021, total 43,469 reported suicide attempts, and authorities made 322,273 outreach visits.
5. In 2021, there were 3,585 suicides in Taiwan, representing a standardized suicide rate of 11.6 people per 100,000 people (Figure 4-3). The long-term trend has shown decline for suicide rate, which peaked in 2006 and it had not been one of the top 10 leading causes of death in Taiwan since 2010. Nevertheless, Taiwan still has a medium high suicide rate compared to international peers. In the future, MOHW will continue to strengthen the social safety net and various prevention policies.
6. The UN 2022 World Happiness Report surveyed indicators such as life assessment positive feeling, negative feeling of citizens. Taiwan ranked 26th, and 1st in East Asia showing that the aforementioned mental health promotion has had a certain effectiveness.
▏Section 2 Psychiatric Health Services
1. The MOHW continued to utilize the seven regional psychiatric care networks. Within these networks, designated core hospitals promote mental health within the region, develop the regional psychiatric care network.
2. In 2021, there were 552 psychiatric care institutions in Taiwan. There were 21,098 hospital beds in the institutions, including 7,409 beds for emergency psychiatric patients and 13,689 beds for chronic psychiatric patients. These figures equate to approximately 9 beds for every 10,000 people. There were also 76
Table 4-3
Statistics of Cases reviewed by the Mandatory Hospitalizations and Mandatory Community Care Committee between 2008 and 2021
Date
Case review
Mandatory hospitalization
Mandatory community treatment
Mandatory hospitalization cases reviewed
Mandatory hospitalization cases approved
Mandatory hospitalization approval rate
Mandatory community treatment cases
Mandatory
community treatment cases approved
Mandatory community treatment approval rate
Jul. - Dec. 2008
669
669
576
86.10%
--
--
--
Jan. - Dec. 2009
1,679
1,679
1,555
92.61%
--
--
--
Jan. - Dec. 2010
1,696
1,670
1,584
94.91%
26
26
100%
Jan. - Dec. 2011
1,251
1,211
1,164
96.12%
40
39
97.50%
Jan. - Dec. 2012
1,277
1,221
1,181
96.72%
56
52
92.86%
Jan. - Dec. 2013
835
772
735
95.21%
63
62
98.41%
Jan. - Dec. 2014
766
718
680
93.41%
48
44
91.67%
Jan. - Dec. 2015
747
677
635
93.65%
70
68
97.14%
Jan. - Dec. 2016
791
725
686
94.62%
66
64
96.97%
Jan. - Dec. 2017
876
818
752
91.93%
58
58
100%
Jan. - Dec. 2018
690
642
592
92.21%
48
46
95.83%
Jan. - Dec. 2019
725
683
629
92.09%
42
41
97.62%
Jan. - Dec. 2020
656
604
545
90.2%
52
52
100%
Jan. - Dec. 2021
574
534
502
94.0%
40
40
100%
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