Mental Health
(Data are for the U.S.)
Morbidity
- Percent of noninstitutionalized adults with serious psychological distress in the past 30 days: 3.0% (2007)
Health Care Use
Ambulatory care
- Number of visits to office-based physicians for mental disorders: 41.6 million
Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Summary, Table 11
- Number of hospital emergency department visits for mental disorders: 4.3 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 10
- Number of hospital outpatient department visits for mental disorders: 7.3 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Outpatient Department Summary, Table 9
- Number of ambulatory care visits for mental disorders: 51.7 million
- Number of ambulatory care visits for depression: 21.0 million
- Number of ambulatory care visits for schizophrenia and other psychoses: 8.5 million
- Number of ambulatory care visits for anxiety: 6.2 million
- Number of ambulatory care visits related to drugs or alcohol: 2.8 million
- Number of ambulatory care visits for attention deficit disorder: 5.4 million
Hospital inpatient care
- Number of discharges for mental disorders: 2.4 million
- Average length of stay for mental disorders: 7.0 days
Source: 2006 National Hospital Discharge Survey, Tables 2,4
Nursing home care
- Number of residents with mental disorders, including Alzheimers disease, as primary diagnosis: 445,800
- Percent of residents with mental disorders, including Alzheimers disease, as primary diagnosis: 27%
- Number of residents with Alzheimers disease and other dementias as primary diagnosis: 207,000
Source: National Nursing Home Survey: 1999 Summary, Table 26
Mortality
- Number of suicide deaths: 32,637
- Suicide deaths per 100,000 resident population: 11.0
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Table 18
More data
- Health, United States Trend Tables with data on mental health
- Depression in the United States Household Population, 2005-2006
- Health Data Interactive
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