1 Professor and Chairman, Director, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, San Carlos Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, email jli@lopez-ibor.com.
2 Deputy Director, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, San Carlos Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
Spain covers an area of some 506 000 km2 and has a population of just over 41 million. It is a high-income country (according to World Bank criteria) and devotes 7.5% of its gross domestic product to health.