Mental health services in Australia 2006-07

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Mental health series no. 11

Mental health services in Australia 2006-07 is the eleventh in the series of AIHW's comprehensive annual reports on the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health services, and the availability of mental health resources. Details from a wide range of data sources for the 2006-07 period, and where available 2007-08, are presented, as are changes over time. Expenditure on state and territory mental health services increased by an annual average of 5.6% (adjusted for inflation) between 2002-03 and 2006-07, to $3,040 million. In 2007-08 there were 20 million mental health-related prescriptions subsidised by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (and for veterans), accounting for just over one in ten of all prescription claims, costing over $700 million.

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Published 27 August 2009; ISSN 1443-6795; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 953 9; AIHW cat. no. HSE 74; 258pp.; $34.00

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Preliminary material (282KB PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Summary (HTML)
Body section
1. Introduction (172KB PDF)
  - 1.1 Report structure
  - 1.2 Definition of mental health-related services
  - 1.3 Background on mental health in Australia
  - 1.4 National policies for mental health
  - 1.5 Additional information
2. Mental health-related care in general practice (238KB PDF)
  - 2.1 Introduction
  - 2.2 Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health survey data
  - 2.3 Mental health-related encounters
  - 2.4 Additional general practice activity
  - 2.5 Mental health-specific Medicare Benefits Schedule items for general practice
3. Mental health-related care in emergency departments (209KB PDF)
  - 3.1 Introduction
  - 3.2 Mental health-related emergency department occasions of service
  - 3.3 Mental health-related emergency department care
4. Community mental health care and hospital outpatient services (238KB PDF)
  - 4.1 Introduction
  - 4.2 States and territories
  - 4.3 Type of service contacts
  - 4.4 Duration of service contacts
  - 4.5 Mental health legal status
  - 4.6 Patient demographics
  - 4.7 Principal diagnosis
  - 4.8 Change over time, 2002-03 to 2006-07
  - 4.9 Additional data
5. Ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related admitted patient care (238KB PDF)
  - 5.1 Introduction
  - 5.2 States and territories and hospital type
  - 5.3 Mental health legal status
  - 5.4 Patient demographics
  - 5.5 Principal diagnosis
  - 5.6 Procedures
  - 5.7 Change over time, 2002-03 to 2006-07
  - 5.8 Additional data
6. Medicare-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services (218KB PDF)
  - 6.1 Introduction
  - 6.2 People accessing MBS-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services
  - 6.3 MBS-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services
7. Admitted patient mental health-related care (307KB PDF)
  - 7.1 Introduction
  - 7.2 Change over time, 2002-03 to 2006-07
  - 7.3 Specialised admitted patient mental health care
  - 7.4 Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care
  - 7.5 Separations with mental health-related additional diagnoses
  - 7.6 Additional data
8. Residential mental health care (223KB PDF)
  - 8.1 Introduction
  - 8.2 States and territories
  - 8.3 Changes 2004-05 to 2006-07
  - 8.4 Mental health legal status
  - 8.5 Patient demographics
  - 8.6 Principal diagnosis
  - 8.7 Length of episodes and residential stays
  - 8.8 Additional data
9. Mental health-related Supported Accommodation Assistance Program services (212KB PDF)
  - 9.1 Introduction
  - 9.2 SAAP clients with mental health-related closed support periods
  - 9.3 SAAP mental health-related closed support periods
10. Support services for people with psychiatric disability (224KB PDF)
  - 10.1 Introduction
  - 10.2 CSTDA services overview
  - 10.3 Residential services
  - 10.4 Non-residential services
11. Mental health-related prescriptions (225KB PDF)
  - 11.1 Introduction
  - 11.2 Prescriptions
  - 11.3 Patients
12. Profile of specialised mental health care facilities (235KB PDF)
  - 12.1 Introduction
  - 12.2 Mental health facilities
  - 12.3 Number of available beds
  - 12.4 Staffing of state and territory specialist mental health facilities
  - 12.5 Private psychiatric hospitals
13. Mental health workforce (206KB PDF)
  - 13.1 Introduction
  - 13.2 Psychiatrists
14. Expenditure on mental health services (260KB PDF)
  - 14.1 Introduction
  - 14.2 Recurrent expenditure on state and territory specialised mental health services
  - 14.3 Private psychiatric hospital expenditure
  - 14.4 Australian Government expenditure on Medicare-subsidised mental health-related services
  - 14.5 Australian Government expenditure on mental health-related medications
  - 14.6 Total Australian Government expenditure on mental health-related services
  - 14.7 Sources of funding for specialised mental health services
  - 14.8 Funding and expenditure for all mental health-related services
15. State and territory summary tables (199KB PDF)
  - 15.1 New South Wales
  - 15.2 Victoria
  - 15.3 Queensland
  - 15.4 Western Australia
  - 15.5 South Australia
  - 15.6 Tasmania
  - 15.7 Australian Capital Territory
  - 15.8 Northern Territory
  - 15.9 Australia
End matter (329KB PDF)
- Appendixes
  - Appendix 1: Data sources
  - Appendix 2: Technical notes
  - Appendix 3: Classifications used
  - Appendix 4: Codes used to define mental health-related general practice encounters and mental health-related hospital separations
- Abbreviations
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Index

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