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IPDE - Extranet Systems - World Health Organization

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68 A. Janca and C. Pull<br />

located in part of the inner city and is subject to very high levels of social<br />

deprivation and unemployment compared to the rest of the city.<br />

Oslo<br />

Oslo, founded in about 1050 by King Harald Hardaake, lies at the head<br />

of Oslo Fjord in the southeastern part of the country. After it was<br />

destroyed by fire in 1624, Christian IV of Denmark and Noway built a<br />

new town farther west under the walls of the Akershus fortress, and<br />

called it Christiania. The population grew in the nineteenth century<br />

partly because of the absorption of surrounding municipalities, and it<br />

replaced Bergen as Noway's largest and most influential city. It was<br />

renamed Oslo in 1925 and today is Noway's capital, largest city, and<br />

home of its leading cultural institutions. Oslo also has the largest and<br />

busiest harbour in the wuntly, and is the centre of Norwegian trade.<br />

banking, shipping and industry.<br />

The study was conducted at the Psychiatrisk klinik, Vinderen, a clinic<br />

affiliated with the Department of Psychiaay of the University of Oslo.<br />

The clinic has primary responsibility for providing psychiatric services<br />

to approximately 80,000 inhabitants of sector-D west. This includes<br />

mostly the more affluent parts of the city, where psychiatric morbidity is<br />

less than elsewhere. The Psychiatrisk klinik works closely with general<br />

practitioners and the general hospital in the sector.<br />

Tokyo<br />

Tokyo lies on the Pacific wast of central Honshu Island. It has been<br />

inhabited since ancient times and was originally named Edo. It was<br />

renamed Tokyo ('eastern capital') in the nineteenth century. Today it is<br />

the capital of Japan and has a population of 12 million. It is the commercial,<br />

financial, and cultural centre of the nation. The locus of predominantly<br />

light and labour-intensive industries, Tokyo is also a<br />

transportation and international traffic centre.<br />

The Keio University Hospital is located in Shinjuku-ku in the centre<br />

of Tokyo, surrounded by the beautiful garden of the Meiji Shrine and the<br />

Shinjuku Imperial Garden. It was established in 1917 under the leadership<br />

of Yukichi Pukuzawa, the founder of Keio University, and<br />

Shibasabum Kitasato, the first dean of the School of Medicine. The hospital<br />

is affiliated with the Keio University School of Medicine, which<br />

was established in 1917 as part of the Keio Gijuku University founded in

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