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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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 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 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

Appendixes

Notes on Updates and Corrections

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)
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)