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National mental health report 2013

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Page last updated: 2013

System-level indicators of mental health reform in Australia, 1993 to 2011

Monitoring progress and outcomes under the Fourth national mental health plan

Profiles of state and territory reform progress

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  • Table of contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Key messages
    • System-level indicators of mental health reform in Australia, 1993 to 2011
    • Monitoring progress and outcomes under the Fourth national mental health plan
    • Profiles of state and territory reform progress
  • Part 1: Introduction and background
    • 1.1 Purpose of the report
    • 1.2 The magnitude of the problem: indicators of mental illness in Australia
    • 1.3 Setting the scene: the national mental health reform context
    • 1.4 Reporting on mental health services in Australia
    • 1.5 Structure of the current report
    • 1.6 Conventions used in the current report
  • Part 2: System-level indicators of mental health reform in Australia, 1993 to 2011
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 National spending on mental health
      • Total spending on mental health services, 2010-11
      • How Australia's 2010-11 spending was invested
      • National spending trends
      • Australian Government expenditure
      • State and territory government expenditure
      • Per capita spending by state and territory governments
      • State and territory investment in programs for age specific populations
      • Caveats about mental health spending trends
    • 2.3 National workforce trends
      • Size and composition of the workforce in state and territory mental health services
      • Size and composition of the Australian Government funded primary mental health care and private hospital workforce
    • 2.4 Trends in state and territory mental health services
      • Investment in service mix reform
      • Expansion of community-based services
      • Changes in inpatient services
      • Comparative service levels in 24 hour staffed residential community services and in inpatient services
      • Trends in service delivery
    • 2.5 Trends in private sector mental health services
      • Private hospital care
      • Medicare Benefits Schedule funded private mental health care
    • 2.6 Consumer and carer participation in mental health care
      • Consumer committee representation at the local service delivery level
      • Other local arrangements for consumer and carer participation
      • Employment of consumer and carer workers
      • Ongoing consumer and carer developments
  • Part 3: Monitoring progress and outcomes under the Fourth national mental health plan
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Priority area 1: Social inclusion and recovery
      • Indicator 1a: Participation rates by people with mental illness of working age in employment: general population
      • Indicator 2a: Participation rates by young people aged 16-30 with mental illness in education and employment: general population
      • Indicator 3: Rates of stigmatising attitudes within the community
      • Indicator 4: Percentage of mental health consumers living in stable housing
    • 3.3 Priority area 2: Prevention and early intervention
      • Indicator 6: Proportion of primary and secondary schools with mental health literacy component included in curriculum
      • Indicator 7: Rates of contact with primary mental health care by children and young people
      • Indicator 8: Rates of use of licit and illicit drugs that contribute to mental illness in young people
      • Indicator 9: Rates of suicide in the community
      • Indicator 11: Rates of understanding of mental health problems and mental illness in the community
      • Indicator 12: Prevalence of mental illness
    • 3.4 Priority area 3: Service access, coordination and continuity of care
      • Indicator 13: Percentage of population receiving mental health care
      • Indicator 14: Readmission to hospital within 28 days of discharge
      • Indicator 15: Rates of pre-admission community care
      • Indicator 16: Rates of post-discharge community care
      • Indicator 19: Prevalence of mental illness among homeless populations
      • Indicator 20a: Prevalence of mental illness among people who are remanded or newly sentences to adult correctional facilities
    • 3.5 Priority area 4: Quality improvement and innovation
      • Indicator 21: Proportion of total mental health workforce accounted for by consumer and carer workers
      • Indicator 22: Proportion of services reaching threshold standards of accreditation under the National Mental Health Standards
      • Indicator 23: Mental health outcomes for people who receive treatment from state and territory services and the private hospital system
    • 3.6 Priority area 5: Accountability: measuring and reporting progress
  • Part 4: Profiles of state and territory reform progress
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 New South Wales
    • 4.3 Victoria
    • 4.4 Queensland
    • 4.5 Western Australia
    • 4.6 South Australia
    • 4.7 Tasmania
    • 4.8 Australian Capital Territory
    • 4.9 Northern Territory
  • Appendix 1: Data sources and explanatory notes for part 2
  • Appendix 2: Data sources and explanatory notes for part 3
  • Appendix 3: Highlights regarding progress of actions under the Fourth national mental health plan
  • Appendix 4: Data sources and explanatory notes for part 4
  • References

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