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released: 16 Apr 2003 author: AIHW media release

Mental health services in Australia 2000-01 describes the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health care services including ambulatory and residential mental health-related care provided by hospitals, community-based services, general practitioners, private psychiatrists and some disability support services. Information on the broad trends in mental health care is presented in easy-to-use summaries. Detailed statistics show the hospital care of patients admitted with a mental health-related diagnosis, the services, beds, staffing and expenditure in psychiatric hospitals and community-based services, and mental health-related medications prescribed by general practitioners and private psychiatrists.

ISSN 1443-6795; ISBN 978 1 74024 249 3; Cat. no. HSE 24; 271pp.; Out of print

Full publication

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (243K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (171K PDF)
      • Report structure
      • Background
    2. Overview (1.1M PDF)
    3. Ambulatory mental health care (244K PDF)
      • Overview
      • Mental health care in general practice
      • Private psychiatrist services
      • Hospital-based mental health care for non-admitted patients
      • Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related non-residential care provided by disability support services
    4. Community residential and admitted patient mental health care (1.09M PDF)2
      • Definition of mental health-related separations
      • National overview
      • Admitted patient mental health care
      • Patient demographics
      • Principal demographics
      • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
      • Procedures
      • Source of referral to public psychiatric hospitals
      • Mode of admission
      • Mode of separation
      • Care type
      • Residential care provided by public community mental health establishments
      • Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related residential care provided by disability support services
    5. Specialised mental health care resources (295K PDF)2
      • Specialised mental health care labour force
      • Expenditure on mental health-related medications
      • Public community mental health establishments
      • Psychiatric and acute care hospitals
  • End matter (429K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Data sources
      • Appendix 2: Community mental health care service contacts
      • Appendix 3: Codes used to define mental health-related care and medications
      • Appendix 4: State and Territory admitted patient data
      • Appendix 5: Population estimates
      • Appendix 6: Establishments contributing to this report

      • Appendix 7: National survey of Mental Health Services

    • Glossary
    • References

Appendixes

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above.

Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. 030506: Updated Tables in sections 4,5
  2. 030603 - Updated tables: 4.8, 4.9, 4.10a, 4.10b, 4.21-28, 4.37a, 4.37b and Table 5.4

Recommended citation

AIHW 2003. Mental health services in Australia 2000-01. Mental health series no. 4. Cat. no. HSE 24. Canberra: AIHW.