Healthy communities: hospitalisations for mental health conditions and intentional self-harm in 2013–14 has been published by the AIHW recently. It examines how many people in each community need hospital treatment for mental health conditions, in order to identify local areas that may require more services and support, focusing on the mental health of populations in small areas across Australia. The report found that in that year, there were enormous inequities in the age-standardized rate of mental health hospitalisations between Primary Health Networks, with the rates being six times higher in some areas than others. The most common group of mental health conditions requiring hospitalisation was from drug and alcohol use. In 2013–14, there were 33,956 hospital admissions (including overnight and same-day) for intentional self-harm, which accounted for 184,332 bed days nationally.
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