Table of contents

  • Mental health services: at a glance
  • The prevalence of mental illness in Australia
  • Australia’s mental health care system—an overview
  • Mental health care services and support
    • Consumer perspectives of mental health care
    • Medicare-subsidised mental health-related services
    • Mental health services provided in public hospital emergency departments
    • State and territory community mental health care services
    • Overnight mental health-related hospital care
    • Same-day mental health-related hospital care
    • Residential mental health care
    • Restrictive practices
    • Psychiatric disability support services
    • Specialist homelessness services
    • Mental health-related prescriptions
  • Mental health resources
    • Mental health workforce
    • Expenditure on mental health services
    • Specialised mental health care facilities
  • Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services
    • Glossary
    • References