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Hospitalisation for Mental Illness
Follow the links below to find information about hospitalisation for treating mental illness.
Reviewed December 2011
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Systematic Reviews on Hospitalisation for Mental Illness
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Links to summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence on hospitalisation for psychiatric disorders.
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| Title: | Mental illness treatments |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | When someone first starts to develop symptoms of mental illness, contact a doctor or a community mental health service for help. Treatment in the community, rather than in a hospital, is thought to be better for a person's mental health. Effective treatment involves more than medications. |
| Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Title: | Mental health laws and involuntary patients |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | The 'Mental Health Act 1986' states that every involuntary patient must be given a written statement of their rights. If they need help to exercise those rights, the patient can ask someone of their choice to assist them - perhaps a staff member, case manager, friend, relative, lawyer or doctor. |
| Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Title: | Psychiatric hospitals or wards |
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| Publisher: | Inspire Foundation |
| Description: | Psychiatric hospitals or wards specialise in treating people experiencing a range of different mental illnesses. |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Mental illness: fact and fiction |
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| Publisher: | SANE Australia |
| Description: | Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every hundred people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder. Overall, about twenty in every hundred people will experience some form of mental health problem at some time in their lives. |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Housing and Accomodation Support Initiative (HASI) evaluation final report |
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| Publisher: | NSW Department of Health |
| Description: | This is the final Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Stage One evaluation report. The program follows psychosocial rehabilitation principles and aims to assist people with mental health problems and disorders requiring accommodation support to participate in the community, maintain successful tenancies, improve quality of life and assist in the recovery from mental illness. |
| Title: | Mental illness: fact and fiction - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to 2 in every 100 will develop bipolar disorder. |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Report on the evaluation of the National Minimum Data Set for admitted patient mental health care |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | The report presents the Institute's most comprehensive evaluation to date of the data collected for the National Minimum Data Set for Admitted Patient Mental Health Care. |
| Date: | Jul 2005 |
| Title: | Admitted patient mental health care. National minimum data set: National health data dictionary, Version 12 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | The report contains the Admitted patient mental health care NMDS and its associated data elements and data element concepts. |
| Date: | Sep 2003 |
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