National Healthcare Agreement: P21-Treatment rates for mental illness, 2010
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Treatment rates for mental illness, 2010 |
METEOR identifier: | 394710 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |
Description: | Proportion of population receiving clinical mental health services. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2010) Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |
Outcome area: | Primary and Community Health Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: P21-Treatment rates for mental illness, 2010 QS Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Calculated separately for public, private and Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) funded services. Rates are directly age-standardised to the Australian population as at 30 June 2001. |
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Numerator: | Number of people receiving clinical mental health services |
Numerator data elements: | |
Denominator: | Population |
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Disaggregation data elements: | |
Comments: | Specified disaggregation:
Public: Nationally and by state/territory (of establishment): by 10 year age group, Indigenous status, remoteness area, and SEIFA of residence. Private: Nationally and by state/territory (of establishment): by 10 year age group, Indigenous status, remoteness area, and SEIFA of residence. MBS: Nationally and by state/territory (of patient's residence): by 10 year age group, Indigenous status, remoteness area, and SEIFA of residence. Available disaggregation:Public: Nationally and by state/territory (of establishment): by 10 year age group, Indigenous status, remoteness area, and SEIFA of residence. Private: Nationally and by state/territory (of establishment): by 10 year age group, remoteness area, and SEIFA of residence. MBS: Nationally and by state/territory (of patient's residence): by 10 year age group, remoteness area, and SEIFA of residence. Data for 2008-09 will be available by June 2010. Most recent data available for 2010 CRC baseline report: 2007-08 |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Accessibility |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Proxy
A small number of persons receiving mental health treatment are not captured in the proposed data sources. These include: Further work will be undertaken to extend the coverage to DVA-funded activities and to public sector admitted and residential services. The potential to include non-admitted services funded by third party funders and out-of-pocket sources will be explored but is not likely to be feasible in the short term. Non-duplicated person count. To estimate the number receiving ‘one or more’ mental health services from administrative data, a non-duplicated person count would be required (e.g. through inclusion of a unique identifier or statistical linkage key or similar). Ability to identify persons treated. People who are assessed for a mental health service but do not go on to be treated for a mental illness are included in the data submissions of a number of jurisdictions to the Community mental health care (CMHC) NMDS. It is proposed that work is undertaken to amend the data definitions in the CMHC NMDS to allow the identification of people who are assessed but not treated. Indigenous identification needs improvement in each of the administrative datasets used in this measure. |
Other issues caveats: | There is likely to be considerable overlap between the MBS data and the private hospital data, as most patients accessing private hospital services would access MBS items in association with the private hospital service. There is also likely to be some double counting of consumers receiving public and MBS-funded services. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 21-Treatment rates for mental illness, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: P28-Public sector community mental health services, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: P29-Private sector mental health services, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 See also National Healthcare Agreement: P32-Proportion of people with mental illness with GP care plans, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011 |