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Assignment on Mental Health Nursing in Australia

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

   

Added on  2020-04-13

Assignment on Mental Health Nursing in Australia

   

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

   Added on 2020-04-13

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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 1Mental Health NursingStudent’s NameUniversity Affiliation
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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 2SummaryThe Mental Health Services is a report that was published on the Australian website to provide a glimpse of the annual report of the main statistics as well as related information regarding mental health services. The report incorporates updates made to the Australian platform over the duration of one year to November 2014. According to the report, the common mental disorders or illnesses are drug or substance abuse, anxiety and depression while those lesscommon are bipolar and schizoaffective disorders as well as schizophrenia. Statistically, the report shows that about 46% of Australians from teenagers to the elderly experienced some kind of mental illness at some point in their life time, and about 20% experienced a common mental illness in the previous one year, that is 2006. Of such, anxiety disorders were very common affecting over 14% of the Australian population, followed by affective disorder with 6.2 % and lastly were substance use disorder with about 5.0%. Also, the report shows that the occurrence ofthese disorders was common in females compared to their male counterparts in all ages. Regarding more serious mental illnesses like psychotic disorders, a survey done in 2010 showed that 0.45% of the people living with this condition sought treatment annually from mental health services in the public sector. The impact of mental illness from the report indicates that up to 3% of Australians have serious mental disorders while 4 to 6% have moderate disorders and further 10 to 12% have mild disorders. Ideally, in 2011, the author states that mental illness was the primary cause of over 750 deaths. Statistics show that mental plus behavioural disorders are the primary drivers of disability and according to the report, it was estimated that mental behaviour and disorders were responsible for the 12% of the burden of diseases in Canada in 2003. The report also shows that the state and territory government provides health care services to people with mental illnesses by providing more facilities and healthcare providers to
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