Mental health services in Australia 2001-02
Mental Health Services in Australia 2001-02 describes the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health 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 an easy-to-use summary. 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. A special theme chapter has been included for the first time, presenting an overview of the available data on the mental health care of people with depression.
ISSN 1443-6795; ISBN 978 1 74024 378 0; Cat. no. HSE 31; 308pp.; $30.00
Full publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material (224 K PDF)1
- Title page and verso
- List of tables 5
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Sections
- Introduction (288K PDF)4
- Report structure
- Background
- Overview
- Changes in mental health care over time
- Patient demographics
- Mental health problems and disorders
- Medication
- Labour force
- Ambulatory mental health care ((389K PDF; 225K XLS)1, 4, 5
- Overview
- Mental health care in general practice
- Private psychiatrist services
- Hospital outpatient services and community mental health care services
- Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related non-residential care provided by disability support services
- Ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related separations
- Residential and admitted patient mental health care (273K PDF; 179 XLS)
- Definition of mental health-related separations
- National overview
- Admitted patient mental health care
- Residential care provided by public residential mental health care establishments
- Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related residential care provided by disability support services
- Specialised admitted patient mental health care (405K PDF; 381 XLS)
- Overview
- Patient demographics
- Principal diagnoses
- Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
- Procedures
- Mode of admission
- Mode of separation
- Care type
- Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care (330K PDF; 303 XLS)
- Overview
- Patient demographics
- Principal diagnoses
- Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
- Procedures
- Mode of admission
- Mode of separation
- Care type
- Specialised mental health care resources (267K PDF; 229 XLS)
- Specialised mental health care labour forces
- Expenditure on mental health-related medications
- Public community mental health establishments
- Psychiatric and acute care hospitals
- Mental health care for depression (223K PDF)
- Prevalence
- Mental health care
- Health service expenditure for depression
- End matter
- Appendixes 5
- Appendix 1: Data sources(220K PDF) 3
- Appendix 2: Codes used to define mental health-related care and medications
- Appendix 3: Separations that could be considered equivalent to ambulatory mental health care
- Appendix 4: State and territory ambulatory mental health are and admitted patient data (322K PDF)
- Appendix 5: National Survey of Mental Health Services (210K PDF)
- Appendix 6: see Internet only XLS tables
- Glossary
- References
Notes on updates and corrections
- 040519 Update: List of table, figures and percentages.
- 040525 Update: Additional tables added.
- 040604 Update: Update to figures
- 040719 Update: Update to tables: 1.4 and 3.15
- 050311 Update:
Recommended citation
AIHW 2004. Mental health services in Australia 2001-02. Mental health series no. 5. Cat. no. HSE 31. Canberra: AIHW.