Service description In Australia, and Territory governments have primary responsibility for: psychiatric hospitals about 20 specialised psychiatric hospitals are operating nationwide. Public — psychiatric facilities are provided by State and Territory health departments psychogeriatric nursing homes State and Territory health departments have expenditure on — governmentrun psychogeriatric nursing homes, with part of this funding coming from Commonwealth grants for general nursing home care. The AIHW maps services in this category to NMDS codes 101 and 104. An overview of how the AIHW method has been adapted for the Indigenous Expenditure Report, and the service use measures, Indigenous underidentification, and cost differential factors provided by the AIHW for the 2017 Report is presented in section 5.1. A detailed definition of expenditure included under this category is provided in the 2017 Report Expenditure Data Manual (http://www.pc.gov.au/ier2017). Cost drivers The key cost drivers for mental health institutions are: the number of patients receiving treatment in mental health institutions the extent of their needs and length of care. The costs are assumed to be proportional to the number of patients in hospital (weighted by the nature of their treatment). These cost drivers are based on development and research undertaken by the AIHW for the Expenditure on Health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People reports. Service use measures Data Years 200809 201213 Measure Data source Estimates Estimates the number of Unpublished AIHW estimates 2008-09 2013-14 patients receiving based on AIHW Expenditure on treatment in mental Health for Aboriginal and Torres health institutions Strait Islander People the extent of their needs and length of care (continued next page) (continued)
Service description In Australia, and Territory governments have primary responsibility for: psychiatric hospitals — about 20 specialised psychiatric hospitals are operating nationwide. Public psychiatric facilities are provided by State and Territory health departments psychogeriatric nursing homes — State and Territory health departments have expenditure on governmentrun psychogeriatric nursing homes, with part of this funding coming from Commonwealth grants for general nursing home care. The AIHW maps services in this category to NMDS codes 101 and 104. An overview of how the AIHW method has been adapted for the Indigenous Expenditure Report, and the service use measures, Indigenous underidentification, and cost differential factors provided by the AIHW for the 2017 Report is presented in section 5.1. A detailed definition of expenditure included under this category is provided in the 2017 Report Expenditure Data Manual (http://www.pc.gov.au/ier2017). Cost drivers The key cost drivers for mental health institutions are: the number of patients receiving treatment in mental health institutions the extent of their needs and length of care. The costs are assumed to be proportional to the number of patients in hospital (weighted by the nature of their treatment). These cost drivers are based on development and research undertaken by the AIHW for the Expenditure on Health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People reports. Service use measures Data Years Measure Data source 200809 Estimates 201213 Estimates the number of patients receiving treatment in mental health institutions the extent of their needs and length of care Unpublished AIHW estimates based on AIHW Expenditure on Health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People 2008-09 2013-14 (continued next page) (continued)
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