Mental health services in Australia 2005-06

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Release Date: 06 Aug 2008

Topic: Mental health

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008) Mental health services in Australia 2005-06, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 05 November 2024.

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Mental health services in Australia 2005-06 is the ninth in the series of AIHW's comprehensive annual reports on the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health services. Details from a wide range of data sources for the 2005-06 period are presented, together with changes over time.Information on mental health care provided by a range of services is detailed. Included are ambulatory services (such as community-based services, emergency departments, private psychiatrists, allied health professionals and general practitioners), hospital and residential services and other services (such as supported accommodation services). In addition, information is provided on mental health-related prescriptions and mental health resources such as facilities, workforce and expenditure. Where possible, comprehensive data are provided for each state and territory, and comparisons are made between population groups (including Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and overseas-born and Australian-born people). This report is a useful resource for health planners, policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and others with an interest in mental health in Australia.

ISSN: 1443-6795
ISBN: 978 1 74024 797 9
Cat. no: HSE 56
Pages: 254

Preliminary material (187KB PDF)
- Half title and verso pages
- Title and verso pages
- Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Summary
Sections
1. Introduction (143KB PDF)
  1. Report structure
  2. Definition of mental health-related services
  3. Background
  4. National policies for mental health
  5. Additional information
2. Mental health-related care in general practice (135KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health survey data
  3. Mental health-related encounters
  4. Additional general practice activity
  5. Mental health-specific Medicare Benefits Schedule items for general practice
3. Mental health-related care in emergency departments (107KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Mental health-related emergency department occasions of service
  3. Mental health-related emergency department care
4. Community mental health and hospital outpatient services (261KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. States and territories
  3. Type of service contacts
  4. Duration of service contacts
  5. Mental health legal status
  6. Patient demographics
  7. Principal diagnosis
  8. Change over time, 2002-03 to 2005-06
  9. Additional data
5. Ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related admitted patient care (128KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. States and territories and hospital type
  3. Mental health legal status
  4. Patient demographics
  5. Principal diagnosis
  6. Procedures
  7. Change over time, 2001-02 to 2005-06
  8. Additional data
6. Medicare-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services (118KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. People accessing MBS-subsidised mental health services
  3. MBS-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services
7. Admitted patient mental health-related care (190KB PDF)²
  1. Introduction
  2. Change over time, 2001-02 to 2005-06
  3. Specialised admitted patient mental health care
  4. Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care
  5. Separations with mental health-related additional diagnoses
  6. Additional data
8. Residential mental health care (118KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. States and territories
  3. Changes 2004-05 to 2005-06
  4. Mental health legal status
  5. Patient demographics
  6. Principal diagnosis
  7. Length of episodes and residential stays
  8. Additional data
9. Mental health-related Supported Accommodation Assistance Program services (89KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. SAAP clients with mental health-related closed support periods
  3. SAAP mental health-related closed support periods
10. Support services for people with psychiatric disability (123KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. CSTDA services by state and territory
  3. Residential services
  4. Non-residential services
11. Mental health-related prescriptions (119KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Prescriptions
  3. Patients
12. Profile of specialised mental health facilities (123KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Mental health facilities
  3. State and territory mental health services
  4. Private psychiatric hospitals
13. Mental health workforce (127KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Psychiatrists and psychiatrists-in-training
  3. Mental health nurses
14. Expenditure on mental health services (140KB PDF)
  1. Introduction
  2. Recurrent expenditure on state and territory specialised mental health services
  3. Private psychiatric hospital expenditure
  4. Australian Government expenditure on Medicare-subsidised mental health-related services
  5. Australian Government expenditure on mental health-related medications
  6. Australian Government expenditure
  7. Sources of funding for specialised mental health services
15. State and territory summary tables (145KB PDF)
  1. New South Wales
  2. Victoria
  3. Queensland
  4. Western Australia
  5. South Australia
  6. Tasmania
  7. Australian Capital Territory
  8. Northern Territory
  9. Australia
End matter (213KB PDF)
- Appendixes
  1. Data sources
  2. Technical notes
  3. Classifications used
  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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