Mental Health Statistics

Last update: 24 November 2011,
by Maureen Bell

Australian Links

Australian Bureau of Statistics Website. Statistics Section
Everything on the ABS web site is now accessible free of charge. There's a useful "How do I?" option at the right hand side of the home page.

Australian Social Trends, Mental Health, March 2009
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Cubes - Mental Health (AIHW)
From the Australin Institute of Health and Welfare, the interactive mental health admitted patients data cube contains information on patients admitted to hospital, who receive specialised psychiatric care, i.e. who are in a public psychiatric hospital or a psychiatric unit of an acute care hospital.

Mental Health: Hospital admissions with a mental health diagnosis and use of community mental health services
Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide, November 2006. This set of maps outlines the distribution of clients of mental health services in South Australia. Produced for the Mental Health Directorate, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, it complements other health atlases including the Social Health Atlas of South Australia and the Social Health Atlas of the Central Northern Adelaide Health Service. Together, these provide important information for policy makers, planners, and service providers and community members working towards the future health and wellbeing of South Australians.

The Mental Health of Australians 2: Report on the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing
By Tim Slade, Amy Johnston, Maree Teesson, Harvey Whiteford, Phillip Burgess, Jane Pirkis, and Suzy Saw. Canberra, Department of Health and Ageing, May 2009.
See the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Summary of Results, 2007 (Australian Bureau of Statistics) below for detailed tables and results of the Survey.

Mental Health Services in Australia
Published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the Mental Health Services in Australia series describes the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health care services including ambulatory and residential mental health-related care provided by hospitals, community-based services, general practitioners, private psychiatrists and some disability support services. Information on the broad trends in mental health care is presented in easy-to-use summaries. Detailed statistics show the hospital care of patients admitted with a mental health-related diagnosis, the services, beds, staffing and expenditure in psychiatric hospitals and community-based services, and mental health-related medications prescribed by general practitioners and private psychiatrists.

National Mental Health Report 2002 (7th)

National Mental Health Report 2004 (8th)

National Mental Health Report 2005 (9th)

National Mental Health Report 2007 (10th)

National Mental Health Report 2007: Additional Tables

National Mental Health Report 2010 (11th)

National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Summary of Results, 2007
Produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this publication presents a summary of results from the 2007 (second) National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) from August to December 2007. The survey collected information from approximately 8,800 Australians aged 16-85 years. Also available from the ABS site are:-

National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Users' Guide, 2007
Mental Health and Wellbeing: Profile of Adults, Australia, 1997 (the results of the first survey)

A Social Health Atlas of Australia. 2nd. edition, 1999
A social health atlas of Australia, by John Glover, Kevin Harris, and Sarah Tennant. Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide, 1999. This publication consists of 9 volumes - one for Australia as a whole, and one for each state or territory.

Social Health Atlas of South Australia (Online), 2008
Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide.

Overseas Links

Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health and Well-being
Data tables and general information on the Mental Health and Well-being component of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS).
The survey was conducted in 2002 with 36,984 respondents, aged 15 or over, residing in households in each province.

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Programs: Mental Health Statistics
A number of annual statistical reports are available, as well as output tables for individual states in the United States.

Health – Mental health and well-being
From Statistics Canada, Canada's national statistical agency.

Hospital Mental Health Services
Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Mental Health : Department of Health. Health Care Statistics
From the Department of Health in the U.K.

Mental Health Statistics
From the Canadian Mental Health Association

Mental Health Statistics and Data Collections
From the Information Centre for Health and Social Care in the U.K. Information on patients detained or cared for under the Mental Health Act 1983.

MHSIP - Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program Online
MHSIP is a United States program about mental health information (or data), how to collect it, what needs to be collected, where to find what others have collected, how to understand what you find, how to report it so other people can understand it, and how to use it to make decisions. Their surveys are available for public use free of charge.

N C H S - FASTATS - Mental Health
From the National Center for Health Statistics in the United States.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) · Statistics
From the National Institute for Mental Health in the United States.

National Statistics Online: Mental Health Services
National Statistics Online. Psychiatric Morbidity
National Statistics Online provides free access to data produced by the Office for National Statistics, government departments and devolved administrations in the U.K. .

Project Atlas: Resources for Mental Health and Neurological Disorders
Project Atlas of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO, is designed to collect, compile and disseminate data on mental health and neurology resources in the world. Resources include policies, programmes, financing, services, professionals, treatment and medicines, information systems and related organizations. The data can be searched using either the Data Query, or the Reports option, or there are two downloadable atlases, Mental Health Atlas 2005 , and Atlas: Country resources for neurological disorders 2004.

The latest edition is WHO | Mental Health Atlas 2011
The WHO Mental Health Atlas 2011 represents the latest estimate of global mental health resources available to prevent and treat mental disorders and help protect the human rights of people living with these conditions. It presents data from 184 WHO Member States, covering 98% of the world’s population. Facts and figures presented in Atlas indicate that resources for mental health remain inadequate.

The Size and Burden of Mental Disorders and Other Disorders of the Brain in Europe 2010
ECNP/EBC REPORT 2011 This major study, prepared by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the European Brain Council (EBC), under the co-ordination of ECNP vice-president Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, sheds new light on the state of Europe’s mental and neurological health.
European Neuropsychopharmacology vol. 21, 2011 pp. 655–679