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Mental health services in Australia

  • Web report
  • Last updated: 05 Dec 2018
  • Author: AIHW
  • Media release

Mental health services in Australia (MHSA) provides a picture of the national response of the health and welfare service system to the mental health care needs of Australians. MHSA is updated progressively throughout each year as data becomes available.

Mental health services in Australia has been published as a web report since 2011. A companion hardcopy publication Mental health services - In brief is produced annually. This report provides an overview of key statistics and related information found in the web pages. 

Email notifications of all updates can be provided. For more information visit the subscribe to release notices page.

Findings from this report:
  • $9 billion was spent on mental health in
    2015–16

  • 4 million people were estimated to have experienced a common mental disorder in 2015

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  • Report contents
    • Summary of Mental health services in Australia
      • Overview
      • Prevalence and policies
      • Key concepts
    • Consumer perspectives of mental health care
      • Consumers in admitted care
      • Consumers in ambulatory care
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • General practice
      • Patient characteristics
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Hospital emergency services
      • Patient characteristics
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Community mental health care services
      • Patient characteristics
      • Characteristics of service contacts
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Same day admitted mental health-related care
      • Same day admitted mental health care—public hospitals
      • Same day admitted mental health care—private hospitals
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Overnight admitted mental health-related care
      • Specialised overnight admitted patient mental health care
      • Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Medicare services
      • Mental health-specific services
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Residential mental health care
      • Resident characteristics
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Restrictive practices
      • Seclusion
      • Restraint
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Mental health-related prescriptions
      • Prescriptions
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Psychiatric disability support services
      • Services accessed by users with a psychiatric disability
      • Interactive data
      • Data sources
      • Key concepts
    • Specialist homelessness services
      • Services accessed by clients with a current mental health issue
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Personal Helpers and Mentors
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Access to Allied Psychological Services
      • Consumer characteristics
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Specialised mental health care facilities
      • Mental health service organisations
      • Mental health beds and patient days
      • Staffing of mental health care facilities
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Mental health workforce
      • Psychiatric workforce
      • Mental health nursing workforce
      • Psychologist workforce
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Expenditure on mental health-related services
      • Specialised mental health services expenditure
      • Australian Government expenditure
      • Interactive data
      • Data source
      • Key concepts
    • Mental health indicators
      • Mental health indicator library
      • Key Performance Indicators for Australian Public Mental Health Services
      • National Healthcare Agreement Indicators
  • National mental health committees
    • Mental Health Information Strategy Standing Committee
      • Your Experience of Service survey instrument
      • Your Experience of Service survey application
    • National Mental Health Performance Subcommittee
    • National Mental Health Data Set Subcommittee
    • National mental health committee publications
  • Classifications and technical notes
  • Data
  • Archived reports and data

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Source data: Expenditure on mental health-related services (452KB XLS).

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