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Mental Health: Service Use in New Zealand 2004


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This publication is the fourth New Zealand Health Information Service mental health publication to present data from the Mental Health Information National Collection.

Data for clients seen by District Health Boards in the 2004 calendar year are presented, including information about client demographics and services provided.

Clients seen in 2004

      • District Health Boards saw 88,540 mental health clients in 2004, as reported to the Mental Health Information National Collection.
      • Just over half of the clients seen in 2004 were male (51.0 percent).
      • Of the clients seen in 2004, 17.3 percent identified themselves as Māori, 3.5 percent as Pacific, 2.3 percent as Asian and 76.9 percent were in the Other ethnic group, which is a composite group of all other ethnicities.
      • Māori had the highest age-standardised rate of clients seen for males (2746 per 100,000) and for females (2163 per 100,000).

Services provided in 2004
      • The most common services were individual treatment attendances, with 78,931 clients receiving this kind of service at least once in 2004 (89.1 percent).
      • The second most common service was care co-ordination, with 33,249 clients receiving this service at least once during 2004 (37.6 percent).
      • Community teams saw 47,399 clients in 2004, representing 54.7 percent of total clients seen.
General practitioners were the most common source of referrals to mental health services (17,919 referrals). The second most common source of referrals was self or relative referrals (13,352 referrals). Together, referrals by general practitioners and by self or relative, made up just under half (49.6 percent) of the referrals made to the District Health Board mental health services in 2004.

The statistical tables included in this publication can be downloaded as an (Excel, 368 KB).

The full publication can be downloaded as a PDF file (1.24 MB).

Alternatively, to order the printed publication, contact the Publications Officer, NZHIS, PO Box 5013, Wellington, phone (04) 496 2000, fax (04) 496 2340, e-mail nzhis-pub@moh.govt.nz.

Published 2007
98 pages, A4
A limited number of hardcopy publications are available free of charge
ISBN: 978-0-478-30791-7 (print)
ISBN: 978-0-478-30792-4 (online)

The 2003 (PDF, 382 KB), 2002 (PDF, 452 KB) and 2001(PDF, 938 KB) issues of this publication are also available.


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