Mental Health: Service use in New Zealand 2007/08 (provisional)Date of publication (online): September 2009
Summary of publicationThe content covers the following:
clients seen by age group, sex, ethnicity and team type
referrals by referral source and sex
information about specific groups of services (community, inpatient, alcohol and drug, forensic, kaupapa Māori and child and youth teams).
Key findings include:
- District Health Boards saw 102,504 mental health clients in 2007/08
- of clients seen in 2007/08, about 20 percent identified themselves as Māori, almost five percent as Pacific peoples and three percent as Asian
- the most commonly used teams were community teams (54,457 clients 2007/08
- general practitioners were the most common source of referrals (21,204 clients in 2007/08.
Related informationMental health section in the Ministry of Health website: www.moh.govt.nz/mentalhealth
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Publishing information
Date of publication: September, 2009
ISBN number: 978-0-478-31997-2 (Online)
HP number: 4923
Citation: Ministry of Health. 2009. Mental Health: Service use in New Zealand 2007/08 (provisional). Wellington: Ministry of Health |
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