Table of contents
- Preliminary material (45K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Contributors and acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Chapters
- Overview of mental health (113K PDF)
- Defining mental health
- Measuring mental health
- Mental health problems and mental disorders
- Measuring the prevalence of mental disorders
- Prevalence of mental disorders in Australia
- Health care utilisation
- Distribution of mental health providers
- Consumers of mental health services
- Mortality
- Comorbidity
- Mental health and disability
- Costs of mental disorders
- Depression as a focus area
- Profile of depression in Australia (69K PDF)
- Definitions and diagnosis of depression
- Risk and protective factors
- Depression and related disorders
- The course of depression across the lifespan
- Depression in specific population groups
- Impact of depression
- Depression research in Australia
- Depression indicators (15K PDF)
- List of NHPA indicators
- Trend spotting: indicator-based summary statistics
- Prevention and management of depression (82K PDF)
- Promotion, prevention and early intervention
- Management of depressive symptoms and disorders
- Issues for prevention and management in special population groups
- Barriers to prevention and management
- Current initiatives relating to depression (71K PDF)
- Promotion, prevention and community education
- Early intervention
- Management and treatment
- Evaluation and monitoring
- Opportunities and future directions (54K PDF)
- Promotion and prevention
- Early intervention, treatment and management
- Research issues
- National Depression Action Plan
- The next NHPA report on mental health
- Overview of mental health (113K PDF)
- End matter (144K PDF)
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Depression in Australia: indicator-based reporting
- Appendix 2: Data and statistical issues
- Appendix 3: Framework for a three-year plan developed at the National Workshop on Depression, November 1997
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Glossary of terms
- References
- Appendixes