Despite an increase in the population’s perceived need for mental health care since the late 1990s, there has been a drop in the number of people in need going without any care, according to data that should be seen as encouraging to policy makers.
Less encouragingly however, although a greater proportion of people who thought they needed help received some help, there was no change in the proportion of people who had their needs partially met and those that had them fully met.
“Of some concern, the findings do not provide confirmation that once treatment is accessed it is any more likely to be perceived as sufficient,” the two psychiatrists from Monash University wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
In 1997, 4.7%...
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