This page contains links to statistical information on mental disorders, and mental health services. Sites dealing with statistics for specific mental disorders will be found on their corresponding topic pages. Additional material on general health statistics can be found on my public health page.

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.

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.

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

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 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. Amongst the resources offered is a library of online publications .

For a review of the MHSIP mental health report card see:

Teague GB, Ganju V, Hornik JA, Johnson JR, and McKinney J
The MHSIP mental health report card. A consumer-oriented approach to monitoring the quality of mental health plans. Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program.
Evaluation Review 1997 June 21(3): 330-41.

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.