Table of contents

  • Preliminary material1
    • Title page and verso
    • List of tables 5
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction4
      • Report structure
      • Background
    2. Overview
      • Changes in mental health care over time
      • Patient demographics
      • Mental health problems and disorders
      • Medication
      • Labour force
    3. Ambulatory mental health care1, 4, 5
      • Overview
      • Mental health care in general practice
      • Private psychiatrist services
      • Hospital outpatient services and community mental health care services
      • Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related non-residential care provided by disability support services
      • Ambulatory-equivalent mental health-related separations
    4. Residential and admitted patient mental health care 
      • Definition of mental health-related separations
      • National overview
      • Admitted patient mental health care
      • Residential care provided by public residential mental health care establishments
      • Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement-funded mental health-related residential care provided by disability support services
    5. Specialised admitted patient mental health care 
      • Overview
      • Patient demographics
      • Principal diagnoses
      • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
      • Procedures
      • Mode of admission
      • Mode of separation
      • Care type
    6. Non-specialised admitted patient mental health care
      • Overview
      • Patient demographics
      • Principal diagnoses
      • Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups
      • Procedures
      • Mode of admission
      • Mode of separation
      • Care type
    7. Specialised mental health care resources 
      • Specialised mental health care labour forces
      • Expenditure on mental health-related medications
      • Public community mental health establishments
      • Psychiatric and acute care hospitals
    8. Mental health care for depression 
      • Prevalence
      • Mental health care
      • Health service expenditure for depression
  • End matter
    • Appendixes 5
      • Appendix 1: Data sources 3
      • Appendix 2: Codes used to define mental health-related care and medications
      • Appendix 3: Separations that could be considered equivalent to ambulatory mental health care
      • Appendix 4: State and territory ambulatory mental health are and admitted patient data 
      • Appendix 5: National Survey of Mental Health Services 
      • Appendix 6: see Internet only XLS tables
    • Glossary
    • References