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Preliminary material (282KB PDF)


  1. Introduction (172KB PDF)
    • 1.1 Report structure
    • 1.2 Definition of mental health-related services
    • 1.3 Background on mental health in Australia
    • 1.4 National policies for mental health
    • 1.5 Additional information
  2. Mental health-related care in general practice (238KB PDF)
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health survey data
    • 2.3 Mental health-related encounters
    • 2.4 Additional general practice activity
    • 2.5 Mental health-specific Medicare Benefits Schedule items for general practice
  3. Mental health-related care in emergency departments (209KB PDF)
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Mental health-related emergency department occasions of service
    • 3.3 Mental health-related emergency department care
  4. Community mental health care and hospital outpatient services (238KB PDF)
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 States and territories
    • 4.3 Type of service contacts
    • 4.4 Duration of service contacts
    • 4.5 Mental health legal status
    • 4.6 Patient demographics
    • 4.7 Principal diagnosis
    • 4.8 Change over time, 2002-03 to 2006-07
    • 4.9 Additional data
  5. >Ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related admitted patient care (238KB PDF)
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 States and territories and hospital type
    • 5.3 Mental health legal status
    • 5.4 Patient demographics
    • 5.5 Principal diagnosis
    • 5.6 Procedures
    • 5.7 Change over time, 2002-03 to 2006-07
    • 5.8 Additional data
  6. Medicare-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services (218KB PDF)
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 People accessing MBS-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services
    • 6.3 MBS-subsidised psychiatrist and allied health services
  7. Admitted patient mental health-related care (307KB PDF)
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Change over time, 2002-03 to 2006-07
    • 7.3 Specialised admitted patient mental health care
    • 7.4 Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care
    • 7.5 Separations with mental health-related additional diagnoses
    • 7.6 Additional data
  8. Residential mental health care (223KB PDF)
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 States and territories
    • 8.3 Changes 2004-05 to 2006-07
    • 8.4 Mental health legal status
    • 8.5 Patient demographics
    • 8.6 Principal diagnosis
    • 8.7 Length of episodes and residential stays
    • 8.8 Additional data
  9. Mental health-related Supported Accommodation Assistance Program services (212KB PDF)
    • 9.1 Introduction
    • 9.2 SAAP clients with mental health-related closed support periods
    • 9.3 SAAP mental health-related closed support periods
  10. Support services for people with psychiatric disability (224KB PDF)
    • 10.1 Introduction
    • 10.2 CSTDA services overview
    • 10.3 Residential services
    • 10.4 Non-residential services
  11. Mental health-related prescriptions (225KB PDF)
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 Prescriptions
    • 11.3 Patients
  12. Profile of specialised mental health care facilities (235KB PDF)
    • 12.1 Introduction
    • 12.2 Mental health facilities
    • 12.3 Number of available beds
    • 12.4 Staffing of state and territory specialist mental health facilities
    • 12.5 Private psychiatric hospitals
  13. Mental health workforce (206KB PDF)
    • 13.1 Introduction
    • 13.2 Psychiatrists
  14. Expenditure on mental health services (260KB PDF)
    • 14.1 Introduction
    • 14.2 Recurrent expenditure on state and territory specialised mental health services
    • 14.3 Private psychiatric hospital expenditure
    • 14.4 Australian Government expenditure on Medicare-subsidised mental health-related services
    • 14.5 Australian Government expenditure on mental health-related medications
    • 14.6 Total Australian Government expenditure on mental health-related services
    • 14.7 Sources of funding for specialised mental health services
    • 14.8 Funding and expenditure for all mental health-related services
  15. State and territory summary tables (199KB PDF)
    • 15.1 New South Wales
    • 15.2 Victoria
    • 15.3 Queensland
    • 15.4 Western Australia
    • 15.5 South Australia
    • 15.6 Tasmania
    • 15.7 Australian Capital Territory
    • 15.8 Northern Territory
    • 15.9 Australia

End matter (329KB PDF)

Appendixes

  • Appendix 1: Data sources
  • Appendix 2: Technical notes
  • Appendix 3: Classifications used
  • Appendix 4: Codes used to define mental health-related general practice encounters and mental health-related hospital separations
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