Government Mental Health Publications
Last update: 11 September 2009,
by Maureen Bell
On this page you will find government
mental health documents, and major mental health reports. Further
reports on specific mental health problems and issues can be found
under individual topics. Links to general
health material are on my public health page
Australian Links
An alphabetical list of online publications currently available
from the Commonwealth Government's Mental Health Branch is here.
publications.gov.au enables you to search for publications from Australian Government websites and Australian libraries using any combination of information about the publication including all or part of the title, publisher name or ISBN.
Mental
Health (AIHW)
This is the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's portal to
mental health information.
Mental Health Status of South Australians, October 1997
Mental health status of South Australians : October 1997 / Anne
Taylor, Eleonora Dal Grande,
Jacqueline Parsons. Adelaide, S. Aust. : SERCIS, Behavioural
Epidemiology Unit Epidemiology Branch, Public & Environmental
Health Service, SA Health Commission, 1997.
Multicultural
Mental Health Australia - Books and Resources
Full text of a range of publications is available free from
this site.
National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with Mental
Illness
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1993. The complete report is available at
this site.
Not for Service:
Experiences of Injustice and Despair in Mental Health Care in
Australia
Mental Health Council of Australia, Canberra, 2005. This document
is the successor to the 1993 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission's National Inquiry into the Human Rights of People with
Mental Illness ('Burdekin Report'). It details personal stories of
people with mental illness, and their families and carers, and the
difficulties they encountered in finding appropriate care.
Parliament of Australia. Senate Select Committee on Mental Health
On this page you will find the full text of submissions to the
Senate Select Committee on Mental Health (Parliament of Australia),
as well as public hearings and transcripts, and instructions on how
to lodge a submission. Parliament of Australia. Senate Select Committee on Mental Health.
The first report A national approach to mental health – from crisis to community, published in March 2006, is available here.
South
Australia. Department of Health. Mental Health Unit. Publications
The full text of many documents is available from this
site.
WA Mental Health docs
Publications from Western Australian Mental Health.
Overseas Links
Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
Final Report, President's new Freedom Commission on Mental Health,
July 2003.
Better
or Worse: A longitudinal Study of the Mental Health of Adults
Living in Private Households in Great Britain
Editors Nicolas Singleton and Glyn Lewis. The Report is based on
surveys carried out by the Office for National Statistics in 2000
and 2001 for the Department of Health and the Scottish Executive
Health Department. London, HMSO, 2003.
Mental
Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. December 13, 1999
This is the first Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health. It
asserts that mental illness is a critical public health problem
that must be addressed by the Nation.
Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental
Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (The report is also
available in html format)
This Supplement was undertaken to probe more deeply into mental
health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minorities. Drawing
on scientific evidence from a wide-ranging body of empirical
research, this Supplement has three stated purposes:
To understand better the nature and extent of mental health
disparities;
To present the evidence on the need for mental health services and
the provision of services to meet those needs; and
To document promising directions toward the elimination of mental
health disparities and the promotion of mental health.
Mental
Health of Refugees
Mental Health of Refugees. Geneva, World Health Organization,
1996.
Mental Health Surveys
From the Department of Health in the U.K. Surveys about the mental
health of certain groups; children, adolescents, carers, adults,
older people, and on attitudes to mental health amongst the general
population.
A Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada
Ottawa, Health Canada, 2002.
The State of Mental Health in the European Union
European Comission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumer
Protection, 2004.
WHO | Mental health publications
World Health Report
2001: Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope
The text of the 2001 WHO World Health Report is available at this
site, either in html, or as a .pdf file.
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