The Health Report, 13 July 2009, journalist Norman Swan
New Australian psychiatry research: 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing
Norman Swan: Welcome to the program. This morning on the Health Report, the state of Australians' psychological health.
The second national survey of mental health and wellbeing has just been reported and it's in a series of papers in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. The Australian Bureau of Statistics collected the information two years ago and these are the first analyses. The previous survey was in 1997.
These latest findings contain important news for us all, including the fact that an astounding one in two of us will have a diagnosable problem with anxiety, depression or drug and alcohol misuse in our lifetimes and a pretty high proportion of us have had problems in the last year, but, as you'll hear, a huge percentage don't receive help.
Harvey Whiteford was closely involved with the survey; he's Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Queensland.
To download the transcript or listen to the podcast follow the link: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2009/2622565.htm#transcript
The research data can be found here: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/4326.0
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