Planning for Mental Health Services
Each case study response should be at least 250 words in length but not to exceed 2 pages of content.
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Case Study: Planning for Mental Health Services
Read/Review: Chapter 11, Case Study 11.2
Respond to the following question sets. Include a description of how you derived the response.
1. What proportion of treated patients with severe mental disorders was treated by general practitioners only? Explain your response.
2. What proportion of patients with severe mental disorders was not treated by health services? Explain your answer with help from the data provided/calculated?
3. Based on the data presented in Table 11.5, what are the resource implications of recommended targets in Queensland for inpatient acute and non-acute beds, ambulatory care clinical staffing, and financial implications of NGO-managed community support services in 2005-2017?
4. In addition to planning agencies, describe additional direct and indirect methods of healthcare planning.