Mental health services in Australia 2002-03

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Mental health series no. 6

Mental Health Services in Australia 2002-03 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 which presents an overview of the available data on the mental health care of people with schizophrenia.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 25 February 2005; ISSN 1443-6795; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 445 9; AIHW cat. no. HSE 35; 299pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Full publication (1.98M PDF) Updates

  • 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 PDFUpdated)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)
    6. Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care (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 depression (223K PDF) 
      • Prevalence
      • Mental health care
      • Health service expenditure for depression
  • End matter 
    • Appendixes (575K PDFUpdated)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

Appendixes

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)

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