Mental health services in Australia 2002-03

Full publication

• Mental health services in Australia 2002-03 (1.98M PDF)^Updates
• Location of selected data from Mental health services in Australia reports (97K PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (210K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • List of boxes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
• Sections
  1. Overview (Sections 1-2 : 239K PDF^Updated)¹
     • Changes in mental health care over time
     • Patient demographics
     • Mental health problems and disorders
     • Medication
     • Labour force
  2. Introduction
     • Report structure
     • Background
     • Health service expenditure for mental health disorders
  3. Ambulatory mental health care (404K PDF)
     • Overview (235K XLS)
     • Mental health care in general practice
     • Private psychiatrist services (82K XLS)
     • Hospital outpatient services and community mental health care services (91K XLS)
     • Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related non-residential care provided by disability support services
     • Ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related separations (88K XLS)
  4. Residential and admitted patient mental health care (283K PDF)
     • Definition of mental health-related separations
     • National overview (213K XLS)
     • Admitted patient mental health care
     • Residential care provided by public residential mental health care establishments
     • Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related non-residential care provided by disability support services
  5. Specialised admitted patient mental health care (394K PDF)
     • Overview (113K XLS)

     • Patient demographics (140K XLS)

     • Principal diagnoses (68K XLS)
     • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (161K XLS)
     • Procedures (73K XLS)
     • Mode of admission
     • Mode of separation
     • Care type (51K XLS)
  6. Non-specialised mental health care for admitted patients (315K PDF); (338K XLS)
     • Overview
     • Patient demographics
     • Principal diagnoses
     • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
     • Procedures
     • Mode of admission
     • Mode of separation
     • Care type
  7. Specialised mental health care resources (250K PDF); (143K XLS)
     • Specialised mental health care labour forces
     • Public community mental health establishments
     • Psychiatric and acute care hospitals
  8. Mental health care for schizophrenia and related disorders (223K PDF)
     • Prevalence
     • Mental health care
     • Health service expenditure for schizophrenia
• End matter
  • Appendixes (575K PDF^Updated)¹
    • Appendix 1: Data sources
    • Appendix 2: Definitions of mental health-related care and medications, and of ambulatory-equivalent separations
    • Appendix 3: State and territory ambulatory and admitted patient mental health care data (394K XLS)²
    • Appendix 4: National Survey of Mental Health Services
  • Glossary (144K PDF)
  • References
  • Index

Appendixes

• Index (66K PDF)
• Internet only tables (57K PDF); (195K XLS^Updated) ¹

Notes on updates and corrections

1. 20050314: Update:
   • Overview (Sections 1-2)(239K PDF)
     • The PDF version has been corrected to clarify the text relating to hospital admissions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on page 7 (101K PDF).
   • Appendixes 1-4. (575K PDF)
     • The PDF version has been corrected to clarify information in Appendix 1 relating to the quality of service contacts data for community mental health services on pages 240 (70K PDF) and 245 (74K PDF).
   • An index has been added to the full report to facilitate searching for specific topics. (66K PDF)
   • Internet only tables added (195K XLS)
2. 20050607: Update:
   • The Appendix 3 excel version tables have been replaced to correct the numbering of these tables and to provide data previously missing from the excel version. (part 1: 266K XLS; part 2: 218K XLS)