Statistical Database
MHCC has compiled a database of statistics relevant to mental illness and mental health services in NSW, which brings into one database the statistics found in a broad range of sources and documents. It is easily accessible and navigable by anyone with Microsoft Word, and is available on the MHCC website. It will be useful to people compiling submissions for funding, business plans, needs assessments, publications, reports, and a range of other documents. It will be updated as new statistics become available. Some of the many statistics include: prevalence of mental illness, burden of disease, Government funding to services (inpatient, community, NGO) with relevant overseas comparisons, number of psychiatric beds, suicide rates, proportion of prisoners with mental illness, and statistics relating to mental illness and Indigenous communities.
