Mental health disorder

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Mental disorder
METEOR identifier:	403575
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Standard 25/08/2011
Definition:	A clinically diagnosable disorder that significantly interferes with an individual’s cognitive, emotional or social abilities. The diagnosis of mental illness is generally made according to the classifications systems of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	DoHA (Department of Health and Ageing) 2009. Fourth national mental health plan: An agenda for collaborative government action in mental health 2009–2014. DoHA, Canberra. Viewed March 8 2011.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Medication for mental health disorder indicator Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Standard 25/08/2011 Mental health disorder indicator Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Standard 25/08/2011 Person—medication for mental health disorder indicator Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Standard 25/08/2011 Person—medication for mental health disorder indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N Health, Standard 28/04/2016 Person—medication for mental health disorder indicator, yes/no code N Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Superseded 28/04/2016 Person—mental health disorder indicator Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Standard 25/08/2011 Person—mental health disorder indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N Health, Standard 28/04/2016 Person—mental health disorder indicator, yes/no code N Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Health, Superseded 28/04/2016 Prisoner health NBEDS Health, Standard 28/04/2016