Historical publications
Mental health: a report focusing on depression: summary
This summary presents the key messages of the main report, and highlights opportunities for improving the mental health of Australians, particularly in relation to depression.
In this section:
- Occasional papers series
- Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements (PHOFAs)
- Regulatory Plan 2007-08
- Regulatory Plan 2008-09
- Regulatory Plan 2006-07
- PHERP Review Reports
- A National Aboriginal Health Strategy 1989
- 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies and Strategic Research
- 2006 Aged Care Homes Survey
- 2006 – 2007 Jurisdictional Summary Report against the National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (NSFATSIH)
- A Healthy Start for 0-5 Year Olds. Occasional Papers Series Number 3
- A Manual to guide the development of local evaluation plans: evaluating initiatives within the LIFE framework using a program logic approach
- A National Aboriginal Health Strategy: An Evaluation 1994
- A Review of Law Enforcement and Other Criminal Justice Attitudes, Policies and Practices Regarding Cannabis and Cannabis Laws in South Australia: Monograph no. 38
- A Review of the Current Role of Enrolled Nurses in the Aged Care Sector: Future Directions
- A Review of the Current Role of Enrolled Nurses in the Aged Care Sector: Future Directions
- A Study into the Information Needs and Perceptions of Older Australians Concerning Falls and their Prevention
- Achievements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Summary Report
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2003 - 2004
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2004-2005
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2006-2007
- Aged Care Assessment Program National Data Repository
- Aged Care Assessment Program, National Minimum Data Set Annual Reports
- Aged Care Assessment Program, National Minimum Data Set Annual Reports
- Ageing and Aged Care in Australia
- Ageing and suicide
- Ageing gracefully:an overview of the economic implications of Australia’s ageing population profile. Occasional Papers New Series Number 10
- Ageing in Place
- Alcohol and other drugs: a handbook for health professionals
- Alcohol consumption patterns among Australian 15-17 year olds from 2000 to 2004
- Alerting the community to the link between illicit drugs and mental illness: developmental research
- Amphetamines and other psychostimulants - a guide to the management of users
- An analysis of research on preventing falls and falls injury in older people: Community, residential care and hospital settings (2004 update)
- An Analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of north Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape
- An Overview of Health Status, Health Care and Public Health in Australia. Occasional Papers Series Number 5.
- Anorexia nervosa: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Appendix 2 : Interpretations of the MAIF Agreement by the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula
- Australian National Tobacco Strategy 2004-2009: meeting the challenges of the next five years
- Australian secondary students' use of alcohol in 1999: Monograph no. 45
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1996: Monograph no. 33
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1999: Monograph no. 46
- Bipolar disorder: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Building on success 1: a review of gay and other homosexually active men's HIV/AIDS education in Australia
- Building on success 2: towards a national strategy for HIV/AIDS health promotion for gay and other homosexually active men
- Building on success 3: the Commonwealth Government response to towards national strategy for HIV/AIDS health promotion for gay and other homosexually active men
- Cannabis offences under the cannabis expiation notice scheme in South Australia: Monograph no. 35
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 1999-2000
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 2000-2001
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 2001-2002
- Clients of treatment service agencies: May 2001 census findings: Monograph no. 47
- COAG mental health early intervention measure - early childhood component: study to scope potential service delivery
- Compression of Morbidity Workshop Papers. Occasional Papers Series Number 4.
- Consultation paper on the national mental health plan 2003-2008
- Consumer Measurement Systems and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Consumer Perceptions of Nursing and Nurses in General Practice
- Coordinated Care - Evaluation Report of 2nd Round Trials
- Coping with depression: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Costs of psychosis in urban Australia
- Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1998-9: Monograph no. 49
- Deep vein thrombosis and air travel
- Disability, homelessness and social relationships among people living with psychosis in Australia
- Discussion Document Towards a Fourth National HIV/AIDS Strategy April 1999
- Djirruwang Program
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2002-2003 Key results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2003-2004 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2004-2005 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2005-2006 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2006-2007 Key Results
- Drug and Alcohol Service Report (DASR): 2007-2008 Key Results
- Drug driving among police detainees in three states of Australia: Monograph no. 50
- Drug harm minimisation education for police in Australia: Monograph no. 41
- Drug law enforcement: its effect on treatment experience and injection practices: Monograph no. 42
- Effects of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme on levels and patterns of cannabis use in South Australia: evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys 1985-1995: Monograph no. 37
- Electronic Information Access Report
- Employment and psychosis
- Evaluating treatments for alcohol and other drugs: Monograph no. 14
- Evaluation of the 2001 Nursing in General Practice Initiative
- Evaluation of the National Donovonosis Eradication Project 2001-2004
- Evaluation of the regionalisation of general practice vocational training
- Evaluation Report Phases 1 and 2 National Continence Management Strategy
- Evaluation: a guide for good practice
- Expanding settings for medical specialist training
- Falls prevention activities for older people: a national stocktake
- Family and Community Services: When is Competition the Answer? Occasional Papers Series Number 2
- Far west area health service integrated mental health project: project response to evaluation
- Far west mental health integration project evaluation report
- First Planning Forum of the National Advisory Council for Suicide Prevention (The)
- Future directions for alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia: Monograph no. 17
- Gambling: is it a health hazard? Occasional Papers New Series Number 2
- Government response to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Indigenous health: 'Health is life'
- Guidelines for the Divisions Network Nursing in General Practice Program
- Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Influenza Outbreaks in Residential Care Facilities for Public Health Units in Australia
- Guidelines for the prevention and control of influenza outbreaks in residential care facilities for Public Health Units in Australia
- HACC MDS Annual Bulletin 2007-2008
- Hanging from a String in the Wind: Development of a National Framework for Mentoring for Nurses in General Practice
- Health and Aged Care Portfolio submission to the Commonwealth Grants Commission's inquiry into Indigenous funding (June 2000)
- Health and Medical Research Strategic Review - The Virtuous Cycle - Working together for health and medical research (Wills Report)
- Health Expenditure: Its Management and Sources. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 3
- Health Financing and Population Health. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 7
- Health Financing in Australia: The Objectives and Players. Health Financing Series Volume 1.
- Health policy and inequality. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 5
- Health Professional Education and Awareness Raising
- Health services in the city and the bush: measures of access and use derived from linked administrative data. Occasional Papers New Series Number 13
- Healthy for Life: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child and Maternal Health Exemplar Site Initiative: Site Reports 2005
- Hepatitis C: Information for all Australians
- Highlights of Government Support for Diabetes 1999
- Hospital casemix data and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 3
- How the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness: the case studies
- Illawarra mental health integration project: final evaluation report
- Incidence of incontinence as a factor in admission to aged care homes: executive summary.
- Infringement versus conviction: the social impact of a minor cannabis offence under a civil penalties system and strict prohibition in two Australian states: Monograph no. 36
- Innovative grants program: project summaries
- Insights into the utilisation of health services in Australia based on linked administrative data. Occasional Papers New Series Number 9
- Inspiring, not retiring
- International approaches to funding health care. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 2
- International mid-term review of the second national mental health plan for Australia
- Interpretations of the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula on the MAIF Agreement
- Investment Review of Health and Medical Research
- Learning Together: Education and Training Partnerships in Mental Health
- Legislative options for cannabis use in Australia: Monograph no. 26
- Lifescripts practice manual: supporting lifestyle risk factor management in general practice
- Local area information systems for mental health services: general principles and guidelines
- MAIF Guidelines - Marketing Of Infant Formulas Via Electronic Media
- Marijuana in Australia: patterns and attitudes: Monograph no. 31
- Measuring Patient Satisfaction with Incontinence Treatment - Report
- Measuring Remoteness: Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) Revised Edition. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 14
- Mental Health Information Development: National Information Priorities and Strategies under the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998–2003
- Mental health: a report focusing on depression
- Mental health: a report focusing on depression: summary
- Mental health: statement of rights and responsibilities (1991)
- Mentoring Fact Sheets for Nursing in General Practice
- Models of intervention and care for psychostimulant users: Monograph no. 32
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Health Promotion Report
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan
- National action plan for depression
- National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000
- National buprenorphine policy
- National Comorbidity Project
- National Drug Strategic Framework 1998-99 to 2002-03: building partnerships
- National evaluation of the Sharing Health Care Initiative demonstration projects
- National health policy on tobacco in Australia and examples of strategies for implementation
- National Health Priority Areas Report: Diabetes mellitus 1998
- National Hepatitis C Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan
- National HIV/AIDS Strategy 2005-2008: Implementation Plan
- National leadership through performance assessment. Occasional Papers Series Number 1
- National Mental Health Information Priorities Workshop: Sydney 26-27 February 2004: Proceedings
- National Mental Health Plan: April 1992
- National Mental Health Report 2002: Seventh Report. Changes in Australia's Mental Health Services under the First Two Years of the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998-2000
- National Mental Health Report 2004: Eighth Report - Summary of changes in Australia's Mental Health Services under the National Mental Health Strategy 1993-2002
- National policy on methadone treatment
- National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce Bulletin No. 1
- National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy: Implementations Plan
- National standards for mental health services
- National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
- National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Context July 2003
- National Strategy for an Ageing Australia: World Class Discussion Paper
- National strategy for heart, stroke and vascular health in Australia
- National Tobacco Strategy 1999 to 2002-03: a framework for action
- Nursing in General Practice Training and Support Workshop 23 August 2005: Summary report
- Panic disorder and agoraphobia: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Partnerships in practice: national HIV/AIDS strategy 1996-97 to 1998-99: a strategy framed in the context of sexual health and related communicable diseases
- Patterns of drug use in Australia, 1985-95
- People Living with Psychotic Illness: An Australian Study 1997–98
- People living with psychotic illness: An Australian study 1997–98: An overview
- Planning Guidelines for National Demonstration Projects in Integrated Mental Health Care
- Principles for the consideration of interactions with health care professionals for the purpose of interpreting the MAIF Agreement
- Private Health Insurance. Occasional Paper New Series Number 4
- Private Sector Outreach Services - Review of Private Sector Outreach Services Legislation
- Proceedings of expert workshop on the induction and stabilisation of patients onto methadone: Monograph no. 39
- Progress of the National Drug Strategy: key national indicators
- Project to evaluate the Service Development and Reporting Framework Trial
- Projected costs of fall related injury to older persons due to demographic change in Australia: report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Canberra: New Directions in Health and Safety.
- Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people discussion paper: key principles and directions
- Promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental health: a monograph
- Public and Private - In Partnership for Ausralia's Health. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 4
- Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project (The): Final Evaluation Report
- Public discussion paper - Adoption of the Globally Harmonised System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals in Respect to Domestic and Consumer Chemicals Including Pesticides
- Public opinion towards drug policies in Australia, 1985-95
- Public perceptions of the health and psychological consequences of cannabis use: Monograph no. 29
- Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Residential Aged Care: Final Report and Commonwealth Response
- Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Residential Aged Care: Final Report and Commonwealth Response
- Reforming the Australian health care system: the role of government. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 1
- Report of the Lessons Learned from Accreditation: Working Group of the National Aged Care Forum
- Report on the Feasibility of Developing a Standards Rating System for all Australian Government Subsidised Aged Care Homes
- Report summary: Consumer Perceptions of Nursing and Nurses in General Practice
- Research and consultation among young people on mental health issues: Final report
- Responding to the mental health needs of young people in Australia: discussion paper: principles and strategies
- Response to the Final Evaluation Report of the Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project
- Results of Research into the Residential Aged Care Industry's Use of Computers and the Internet
- Returns on Investment in Public Health: An epidemiological and economic analysis
- Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders, 2nd edition: Monograph no. 48
- Review of the Impact of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974 on the Recruitment and Retention of Medical Practitioners in Rural and Regional Australia
- Schizophrenia: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Second National Mental Health Plan
- Seeking residents' views in residential aged care
- Self-harm: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers, 2005
- Sexual Health Promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People – A community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions
- Some characteristics of hospital admissions and discharges: older Australians. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 8
- Stigma and discrimination
- Still Inspiring
- Summary of Outcomes of the National Workshop on practice nursing in Australian General Practice
- Technology, Health and Health Care. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 5
- The Ageing Australian Population and Future Health Costs: 1996-2051. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 7
- The Australian Government Response to the 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies
- The Australian medical workforce. Occasional Papers New Series Number 12
- The Commonwealth Government Response to the Report of the Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance (JETACAR)
- The Development and Implementation of the "Plan A Safe Strategy" Drink Driving Prevention Program: Monograph no. 13
- The Effectiveness of Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems - an Overview: Monograph no. 11
- The Guide: Implementing Occupational Health and Safety in Residential Aged Care
- The Health and Psychological Effects of Cannabis Use, 2nd edition: Monograph no. 44
- The National Drug Strategy: mapping the future
- The National Hepatitis C Strategy 2005-2008
- The National Slips and Falls Prevention Project
- The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Framework for action by Governments 2003
- The Quality of Australian Healthcare: Current Issues and Future Directions. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 6
- The Role of Police in the Diversion of Minor Alcohol and Drug Related Offenders: Monograph no. 40
- The Social Costs of Drug Abuse in Australia in 1988 and 1992: Monograph no. 30
- The Social Impacts of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South Australia: Monograph no. 34
- The Use of Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Animals and Humans
- The Use of Hospitals by Older People: a Casemix Analysis. Occasional Papers New Series Number 11
- Toward a national approach to information sharing in mental health crisis situations
- Trends in hospital activity: Australia 1991–92 to 2000–01. Occasional Papers: New Series No.15
- Use of psychopharmacological and other treatments by persons with psychosis (The)
- Using Mathematical Models to Assess Responses to an Outbreak of an Emerged Viral Respiratory Disease
- Valuing the past ... investing in the future- Evaluation of the National HIV /AIDS Strategy 1993-94 to 1995-96
- Video conferencing project evaluation
- Ways forward: national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health policy
- Medicare Statistics - September Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - December Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - September Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - December Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2005-06
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2004-05
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2003-04
- Australian National Diabetes Information Audit & Benchmarking (ANDIAB) 2002
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