View - LIME Network

• In 2004-05, Indigenous people were nearly twice as likely to be hospitalised formental and behavioural disorders as non-Indigenous people (table 9.4.2).• Indigenous people were hospitalised for substance use disorders at around fourtimes the rate for non-Indigenous people.• Hospitalisations for substance use disorders were the most common Indigenoushospitalisations for mental and behavioural disorders (33.8 per cent of allhospitalisations) (table 9A.4.23).• Hospitalisations for mood and neurotic disorders were the most commonnon-Indigenous hospitalisations for mental and behavioural disorders(56.8 per cent of all hospitalisations) (table 9A.4.23).More data on standardised hospitalisation ratios for males and females by mentaland behavioural disorders (ICD–10–AM codes F00–F99) for Queensland, WA, SAand the NT for the period 2001-02 to 2004-05 can be found in tables 9A.4.18–41.FUNCTIONAL ANDRESILIENT FAMILIESAND COMMUNITIES