Mental health and addiction: service use 2009/10 (provisional)
Ministry of Health. (2012). Wellington: Ministry of Health.
This is the first publication in this series to use data extracted from the Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD). Earlier publications have used data from the Mental Health Information National Collection (MHINC). Includes new plain language summary document.
Key facts
- The age-specific rate of clients aged 15–19 was higher than the rate of any other age group.
- The male age-standardised rate was almost 1.5 times higher than the female rate.
- The Māori age-standardised rate was higher than all other ethnic groups.
- Between 2001/02 and 2009/10 the crude rate of clients seen increased.
- During the same period, the number of contacts, received in community or outpatient settings, increased. In comparison, the number of nights spent in inpatient or residential settings decreased.
