Tool № 03 · Mental Health & Suicide

The honest version: AIHW doesn't publish per-PHN mental-health prevalence.

We do not fabricate per-PHN mental-health numbers. AIHW publishes 12-month prevalence, K10 distress, and Better Access uptake at national / state level only — applying those rates to PHN populations is modelling, not real per-PHN data. Below is an honest inventory of what's published per PHN (and not yet loaded), and what isn't published at all.

Data vintage ABS ERP2024 AIHW MH per-PHNnot published MBS Better Accessnot per-PHN
SNHN population (ERP 2024)
931,439
real per-LGA, sum to PHN — ABS ERP June 2024
Adult population (18+)
770,300
denominator for any MH metric · ABS ERP 2024
§ 01 · Public-data inventory

What we'd need from AIHW to do this honestly.

Two cards published per PHN that we haven't ingested yet, and six metrics AIHW doesn't publish per PHN at all. We disclose both rather than invent a number.

AIHW · ABS · MBS
PUBLISHED PER PHN · NOT YET LOADED
queued for ingest
Suicide rate per 100,000 (5yr rolling)
AIHW MORT books — published per PHN

Real per-PHN value is published by AIHW; not currently in our abs_raw schema. Internal-data tier will surface live MORT extracts.

PUBLISHED PER PHN · NOT YET LOADED
queued for ingest
Intentional self-harm hospitalisations
AIHW MyHospitals — published per PHN

Real per-PHN counts are published by AIHW; not currently loaded. Will appear in next AIHW ingest cycle.

NOT PUBLISHED PER PHN
intentionally omitted
12-month mental-health prevalence
ABS National Study of Mental Health & Wellbeing 2020-22

ABS publishes at national level only — applying national rates to PHN populations is modelling, not real per-PHN data. Intentionally omitted.

NOT PUBLISHED PER PHN
intentionally omitted
K10 high / very-high psychological distress
ABS National Health Survey 2022

Published at national + state level. Per-PHN K10 distress is not published; modelling intentionally omitted.

NOT PUBLISHED PER PHN
intentionally omitted
MBS Better Access uptake (items 2715/2717)
MBS Item Statistics

Published at national + state level. Per-PHN uptake requires MBS record-level extract (internal-data tier).

NOT PUBLISHED PER PHN
intentionally omitted
Service-need gap
Derived from prevalence × uptake modelling

Without real per-PHN prevalence and real per-PHN uptake, a service-gap figure would be entirely modelled. Intentionally omitted.

NOT PUBLISHED PER PHN
intentionally omitted
NDIS psychosocial-disability PHN share
NDIS Quarterly Reports

NDIS publishes disability-group counts per PHN; psychosocial-disability sub-cohort cut requires record-level extract. Internal-data tier.

NOT PUBLISHED PER PHN
intentionally omitted
Cohort-specific distress (Indigenous, CALD, LGBTIQA+)
AIHW Indigenous HPF / Private Lives 3 / ABS NHS

National-level only. Applying national rates to PHN cohorts is modelling, not real per-PHN data. Intentionally omitted.

How to fill these gaps · Internal-data tier

The same approach PHNs use for needs-assessment underwriting — record-level extracts you supply, processed in our tenancy.

Data quality notes

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