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The Australian government spent $9.1 billion on mental health related services in 2017. This averaged out to $375 per person, a rise from $359 in the year prior. In 2016-2017, 7.4% of the Australian government's health expenditure went towards mental health services.
t. e. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the age standardised death rate for suicide in Australia, for the year 2019, was 13.1 deaths per 100,000 people; preliminary estimates for years 2020 and 2021 are respectively 12.1 and 12.0. In 2020, 3,139 deaths were due to suicide (2,384 males and 755 females); in 2021, 3,144 deaths were ...
In a 12-month period, it is estimated that 65,000 Australians make a suicide attempt, [6] with an average of 2,320 [7] [8] people dying by suicide every year. [9] The 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing of adults estimated that around 45% of the Australian population in the 16–85 age bracket will experience mental illness in their lifetime, while 20% of the population ...
The following are lists of countries by estimated suicide rates as published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. [note 1] In many countries, suicide rates are underreported due to social stigma, cultural or legal concerns. [3] Thus, these figures cannot be used to compare real suicide rates, which are unknown in most ...
The National Mental Health Commission (the Commission) is an Australian Government executive agency established in 2012 to provide robust policy advice and evidence on ways to improve Australia’s mental health and suicide prevention system, and to act as a catalyst for change to achieve those improvements through monitoring and reporting on investment in mental health and suicide prevention ...
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information. Its biennial publication Australia's Health is a key national information resource in the area of health care. The Institute publishes over 140 reports each year on various aspects of Australia's health and ...
Mental disorders. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, [6] is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a better quality of life while respecting personal, social, and cultural boundaries. [7] Impairment of any of these are risk factor for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, [8] which are ...
The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of text messaging.