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Mental health services in Australia. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 17 December 2020, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mental-health-services/mental-health-services-in-australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Mental health services in Australia [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020 [cited 2021 Jan. 18]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mental-health-services/mental-health-services-in-australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2020, Mental health services in Australia, viewed 18 January 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/mental-health-services/mental-health-services-in-australia
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.
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$9.9 billion was spent on mental health in 2017–18
4.3 million people received mental health-related prescriptions in 2018-19
The mental health-related prescriptions interactive figures provide data on people by prescription type, number of scripts, states and territories and demographic information. These figures allow users to explore the data in more detail.
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