Analyzing Significant Mental Health Issues Facing Australia Today

This essay outline identifies depression and dementia as the major mental health issues prevalent across Australia, supported by data from organizations like the WHO and AIHW. It defines mental illness, outlines statistical data regarding the prevalence of depression and dementia in recent years, and establishes these conditions as major mental healthcare concerns. The essay further elaborates on interventions to address these issues, discussing the signs, symptoms, prevalence, and health burden of depression and dementia. It identifies risk factors, comorbid conditions, and complications, supporting proposed interventions with research evidence. The conclusion restates the thesis, summarizing main points and emphasizing the need for immediate implementation of interventions to improve the quality of life for patients and caregivers. The outline includes references to scholarly articles and reports, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Running head: ESSAY OUTLINE
Essay outline
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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1. Introduction Source/s
General topic
statement
Background
information
Definition (optional)
Thesis statement
Establishing depression and dementia as the major
mental health issues that are prevalent across
Australia.
Providing a definition for mental illness with
supporting facts from the World Health
Organization. Outlining statistical data regarding
the prevalence of depression and dementia in recent
years, in Australia.
Establishing depression and dementia as the major
mental healthcare concern, and elaborating on the
interventions that will help in addressing the issues.
(Savy &
Sawyer, 2009)
(WHO, 2017)
(WHO, 2012)
(AIHW, 2016)
(ABS, 2016)
1st Body Paragraph Source/s
Topic Sentence
Support points (e.g.
reason, quoted,
description, statistic,
example - cited)
Depression or Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is
a severe mental health problem, and creates
significant impacts on health and wellbeing of
patients.
Discussion of the common signs, symptoms and
rates of prevalence across Australia. Explanation of
the health burden created by depression.
Discussion of the major factors that increase the
(Greenberg,
Fournier,
Sisitsky, Pike &
Kessler, 2015)
(Habtewold,
Islam, Radie &
Tegegne, 2016)
(Colodro-Conde
et al., 2018)

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risk for suffering from depression.
Explaining the occurrence of the mental disorder
based on different models and prior research
evidences.
(Wray et al.,
2018) (AIHW,
2016)
2nd Body Paragraph Source/s
Topic Sentence
Support points
Impacts of depression on the health and quality of
life of the patients.
Discussion of comorbid conditions that are
associated with depression.
Identification of the complications of depression
and exhaustive explanation on the different
interventions that can help to address the issues.
Supporting the interventions with evidences.
(Potter,
McQuoid &
Steffens, 2015)
(van Strien,
Konttinen,
Homberg,
Engels &
Winkens, 2016)
(Godlewska,
Browning,
Norbury, Cowen
& Harmer,
2016)
3rd Body Paragraph Source/s
Topic Sentence Dementia is an umbrella term that results in serious
health problem, and brings about a momentous
(Jung, 2015)
(Hendriks,

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Support points (e.g.
reason, quoted,
description, statistic,
example - cited)
impacts on the wellbeing of patients.
Discussion of the common signs, symptoms and
types of dementia namely, vascular dementia and
AD.
Discussion on the prevalence rates of dementia
across Australia. Description of the health burden
created by dementia.
Explanation on the different factors that are
responsible for the onset of dementia.
Supporting the causes with evidences.
Smalbrugge,
Hertogh & van
der Steen, 2014)
(ABS, 2016)
(Okamura et al.,
2014) (T
O'Brien &
Thomas, 2015)
4th Body Paragraph Source/s
Topic Sentence
Support points
Impacts of dementia on the health and quality of
life of the patients.
Discussion of the comorbid conditions that are
allied with dementia.
Documentation of the difficulties of dementia and
comprehensive explanation of the diverse
interventions that can aid to address the identified
issues.
Providing supportive evidences for the
interventions.
(van Alphen et
al., 2016)
(Woods,
O'Philbin,
Farrell, Spector
& Orrell, 2018)
(Birks &
Harvey, 2018)

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2. Conclusion
Restatement of thesis
Summary of the main
points
Dementia and depression lead to major healthcare
complications and create a substantial impact on the
mental and physical health of the patients.
High prevalence of dementia and depression among
Australians and their effects require immediate
implementation of the discussed interventions, to
improve quality of life of the patients and their care
givers.
Table 1- Essay outline

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Research References
Primary reference i.e. the journal article which your essay is based on.
Author/
s:
Savy, P., & Sawyer, A. M.
Year of
publica
tion:
(2009).
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
Mental illness: understandings, experience and service provision.
Publica
tion
details: Melbourne : Oxford University Press,

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Secondary reference 1 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Year of
publica
tion:
2016
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
4364.0.55.001 - National Health Survey: First Results, 2014-15
Publica
tion
details:
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/
4364.0.55.001~2014-15~Main%20Features~Mental%20and%20behavioural
%20conditions~32
Secondary reference 3 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Year of
publica
tion:
2016

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Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
Dementia-overview
Publica
tion
details:
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/health-conditions-disability-deaths/
dementia/overview
Secondary reference 4 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Birks, J. S., & Harvey, R. J.
Year of
publica
tion:
2018
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
Donepezil for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease
Publica Cochrane Database of systematic reviews, (6).

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tion
details:
Secondary reference 5 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Colodro-Conde, L., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Zhu, G., Coventry, W. L., Byrne, E.
M., Gordon, S., ... & Eaves, L. J.
Year of
publica
tion:
2018
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
A direct test of the diathesis–stress model for depression.
Publica
tion
details:
Molecular psychiatry, 23(7), 1590
Secondary reference 5 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/ Dementia Australia

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s:
Year of
publica
tion:
2019
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
Dementia Statistics
Publica
tion
details:
https://www.dementia.org.au/statistics
Secondary reference 5 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Godlewska, B. R., Browning, M., Norbury, R., Cowen, P. J., & Harmer, C. J.
Year of
publica
tion:
2016
Title of
book,
article
Early changes in emotional processing as a marker of clinical response to SSRI
treatment in depression

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or
website
:
Publica
tion
details:
Translational psychiatry, 6(11), e957
Secondary reference 5 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Greenberg, P. E., Fournier, A. A., Sisitsky, T., Pike, C. T., & Kessler, R. C.
Year of
publica
tion:
2015
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
The economic burden of adults with major depressive disorder in the United
States (2005 and 2010).
Publica
tion
details:
The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 76(2), 155-162.

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Secondary reference 5 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Habtewold, T. D., Islam, M. A., Radie, Y. T., & Tegegne, B. S.
Year of
publica
tion:
2016
Title of
book,
article
or
website
:
Comorbidity of depression and diabetes: an application of biopsychosocial
model.
Publica
tion
details:
International journal of mental health systems, 10(1), 74.
Secondary reference 5 Write the details of the reference here. This is an example.
Author/
s:
Hendriks, S. A., Smalbrugge, M., Hertogh, C. M., & van der Steen, J. T.
Year of
publica
2014