Mental health services in Australia 1999-00

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Mental health series no. 3

Mental Health Services in Australia 1999-00 describes the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health care services including ambulatory and residential mental health-related care provided by hospitals, community0based services, general practitioners, private psychiatrists and some disability support services. Detailed statistics show 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.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 19 April 2002; ISSN 1443-6795; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 173 1; AIHW cat. no. HSE 19; 255pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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  • 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.

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