Mental health services in Australia 1999-00

Mental health series no. 3

Full publication

• Mental health services in Australia 1999-00 (968K PDF)
• Location of selected data from Mental health services in Australia reports (97K PDF)

Publication table of contents

• Preliminary material (139K PDF)
  • Title page and verso
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Highlights (separate 104K PDF)
• Sections
  1. Introduction (91K PDF)
     • Background
     • Report structure
     • Data sources
     • This report and data on the Internet
  2. Ambulatory mental health care (172K 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
  3. Community residential and admitted patient mental health care (a: 393K PDF; b: 344K PDF ) ¹
     • Data sources and methods
     • Overview
     • Residential care provided by public community mental health establishments
     • Admitted patient mental health care
     • Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related residential care provided by disability support services
  4. Specialised mental health care labour force and establishments (158K PDF)
     • Psychiatrists
     • Expenditure on mental health-related medications
     • Public community mental health establishments
     • Psychiatric and acute care hospitals
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix 1: National Minimum Data Sets for Mental Health Care (121K PDF)
    • Appendix 2: Codes used to define mental health-related care and medications (120K PDF)
    • Appendix 3: AR-DRG descriptions (66K PDF)
    • Appendix 4: Calculations for 1999-00 patient day estimates and trimming procedure for length of stay (79K PDF)
    • Appendix 5: Population estimates and indirect age-standardisation (112K PDF)
    • Appendix 6: National Survey of Mental Health Services (70K PDF)

    • Appendix 7: Establishments contributing to this report (38K PDF);  (additional tables (89K PDF))

  • Glossary (114K PDF)
  • References (40K PDF)

Notes and corrections

1. Tables 3.21a, 3.23a  and 3.26 have been updated to remove a double counting error.