National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Mental Health in Australia

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Introduction
The government of Australia introduced and developed the National Disability Insurance
scheme (NDIS) with the provision of the funding for the people with disability. According to
Nous (2018) the NDIS includes the people who have been suffering from accidental and inborn
disability together with the psychosocial disability scheme. This has furthermore enable them
towards the purchase of the necessary and the reasonable supports. The Mental Health Australia
works collaboratively with the NDIS including the raising share of the policy, the issues related
to the implementation the building of the capacity and the sharing of the information. The report
highlights the policy issues in regards to the challenges of the health covered by NDIS. The
report is the explanation of the policy regarding the process of the review and the inquiry.
Throughout the report, the health issues that is the mental health has been highlighted within the
context of Australia (National Mental Health Commission, 2013). The report explains the
background of the current situation, the process, the issues that concerns the social work progress
for the implementation of the policy towards the targeted health issue. The report contains the
proposal of the policy with evidences for the proposal , the development and the process of the
implementation of the policy, how the policy fits with the programs of the government and the
process of the reporting and the evaluation process with the expected rate of the benefits.
Outline of the social issue
The context of the mental health and the care related to the psychiatrics has been grossly
underfunded when being compared to the physical health status. As per the current statistics in
Australia, the extent regarding the conditions of the mental health within the community is

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extensive with more than the majority of the adult Australians suffering from the mental health
conditions throughout their lifetime.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme is the scheme throughout the nation in
Australia that assists the people with disability with the inclusion of the psychological disability
and the mental disability. It has furthermore been found that people having mental disability
which significantly influences and impact their life are likely to be permanent and might qualify
for the NDIS support. Furthermore the National Disability Insurance Agency has been
implementing the scheme and has been responsible towards assessing eligibility with the
participants towards the effective development of the support for the meeting of their needs. The
scheme of NDIS helps in assisting people having mental illness who might be eligible towards
the access the NDIS. The mental health system fund of NDIS includes support towards the
related mental health that includes the clinical nature, the ambulatory, acute and the continuing
care within the community and the rehabilitation. The mental health scheme of the NDIS
furthermore includes early intervention supports and the residential care that includes both
programs for the development of the child and the adolescent needs.
The social distribution and the prevalence of mental health has been well documented
within the context of the Australia. While here has been a growing recognition of the problem in
the middle and high income areas of the country, there still lies some of the significant gap for
the measurement of the health challenges, the programs, the policies for the prevention of the
mental health issues. According to McGorry et al. (2011) mental illness are often termed as the
mental disorders. These are very much common within the population of Australia. The research
furthermore notified that one in every 5 Australians within the population of 4 million people has
been reported to suffer from the mental illness. Some of the most common categories and the

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types of the metal disorders suffered by the population in Australia are the anxiety, depression
and the substance use disorders. Within the different variety and the types of the mental illness,
there ranges a wide variety of the mild disorders lasting from few weeks to life time causing
some of the serious range of the disability. The context of the mental illness tends to affect the
people within the country through the behavior, mood and the way towards perceiving around
the world. According to the research study by Jorm (2014) the mental illness causes distress and
affects the ability of the person towards functioning at the work. In the context of Australia,
Mental illness furthermore attracts discrimination and stigma which forms as the two main
disorders for the person with mental illness.
As per the current structure, Australia has been lacking the overarching mental health
architecture. There has been so such agreed national design or any of the structure regarding the
facilitation of the prevention or the proper care for the people suffering from the mental illness.
Background of the current situation
A good mental health is one of the integral factor towards the wellbeing and the human
health. The mental health and the commonly denoted mental disorders are generally shaped by
numerous of the economic, social and the physical environments factors within the span of life.
Some of the overview of the mental health in Australia includes the following.
It has been noted that more than 45 percent that is 7.3 million of the Australians who are
among the age of 16 to 85 years has been experiencing the common mental health disorder like
the anxiety, depression and the context of substance abuse. More than 64,000 people in Australia
have psychotic illness and have been in contact with the public specialized services of the mental
health in each of the year. Furthermore more than 560,000 adolescents and children within the