TY - JOUR
T1 - Patterns of service provision in child and adolescent mental health care in Australia
AU - Salvador-Carulla, Luis
AU - Furst, Mary Anne
AU - Tabatabaei-Jafari, Hossein
AU - Mendoza, John
AU - Riordan, Denise
AU - Moore, Elizabeth
AU - Rock, Daniel
AU - Anthes, Lauren
AU - Bagheri, Nasser
AU - Salinas-Perez, Jose A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research uses data from the Integrated Mental Health Atlases of Western Sydney (funded by Western Sydney Partners in Recovery, 2014); South Western Sydney (funded by South Western Sydney LHD, 2014); Sydney North (funded by Sydney North PHN, 2016); Central Eastern Sydney (funded by the University of Sydney, University SPARC Funding, and PIR East and South East Sydney, 2015); Australian Capital Territory (PHN Canberra ACT, 2016); Eastern Melbourne (funded by Eastern Melbourne PHN, 2018); Perth North, Perth south and Country Western Australia (funded by Western Australia Primary Health Alliance, 2018); and Western New South Wales (funded by PHN Western New South Wales, 2016).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/12/20
Y1 - 2022/12/20
N2 - Standard description of local care provision is essential for evidence-informed planning. This study aimed to map and compare the availability and diversity of current mental health service provision for children and adolescents in Australia. We used a standardised service classification instrument, the Description and Evaluation of Services and DirectoriEs (DESDE) tool, to describe service availability in eight urban and two rural health districts in Australia. The pattern of care was compared with that available for other age groups in Australia. Outpatient care was found to be the most common type of service provision, comprising 212 (81.2%) of all services identified. Hospital care (acute and non-acute) was more available in urban than in rural areas (20 services [9.7%] vs 1 [1.8%]). The level of diversity in the types of care available for children and adolescents was lower than that for the general adult population, but slightly higher than that for older people in the same areas. Standardised comparison of the pattern of care across regions reduces ambiguity in service description and classification, enables gap analysis and can inform policy and planning.
AB - Standard description of local care provision is essential for evidence-informed planning. This study aimed to map and compare the availability and diversity of current mental health service provision for children and adolescents in Australia. We used a standardised service classification instrument, the Description and Evaluation of Services and DirectoriEs (DESDE) tool, to describe service availability in eight urban and two rural health districts in Australia. The pattern of care was compared with that available for other age groups in Australia. Outpatient care was found to be the most common type of service provision, comprising 212 (81.2%) of all services identified. Hospital care (acute and non-acute) was more available in urban than in rural areas (20 services [9.7%] vs 1 [1.8%]). The level of diversity in the types of care available for children and adolescents was lower than that for the general adult population, but slightly higher than that for older people in the same areas. Standardised comparison of the pattern of care across regions reduces ambiguity in service description and classification, enables gap analysis and can inform policy and planning.
KW - adolescent health services
KW - child health services
KW - delivery of health care
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144370423&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/13674935221146381
DO - 10.1177/13674935221146381
M3 - Article
C2 - 36538047
AN - SCOPUS:85144370423
SN - 1367-4935
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Journal of Child Health Care
JF - Journal of Child Health Care
ER -
