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 Prepared for the Mental Health Commission August 2011Mental Health CommissionPO Box 12479, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-478-29231-2  This document is available on the Mental Health Commission’s websitet.nz  Contents Executive summary v 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Purpose of the report 1 1.2 Background 1 1.3 Information sources 2 2 Prevalence of disorder 4 2.1 Prevalence of mental disorder 4 2.2 Substance use and addiction 6 3 Suicide and intentional self-harm 8 3.1 Intentional self-harm and suicide behaviours 8 3.2 Hospitalisations for intentional self-harm 9 3.3 Suicide deaths 9 4 Access to primary health care 12 5 Access to mental health services 13 5.1 Mental health visits to health professionals 13 5.2 Secondary mental health service use by children and youth in 2005 13 5.3 Secondary mental health service use over time 16 5.4 Specific issues for children and youth with mental health and addiction problems 20 6 Discussion 22 6.1 Access 22 6.2 Primary mental health services 24 6.3 Collaboration and co-ordination 24 6.4 Prevention and early intervention 25 6.5 Conclusion 26 References 27  List of tables and figures Table 1: Depression in secondary school students, 2007 4 Table 2: 12-month prevalence of mental disorder and serious disorder, by age group 5 Table 3: 12-month prevalence of mental disorder and serious disorder, by ethnicity (adjusted for age and sex) 5 Figure 1: 12-month prevalence of mental disorder, by age group and disorder group 6 Figure 2: Hazardous drinking* among the total population, by gender and age group 7 Figure 3: Suicidal thoughts and behaviours among secondary school students in the past 12 months, by gender 8 Table 4: Prevalence of suicide ideation, suicide plan and suicide attempt in the past 12 months, by age group 9 Figure 4: Hospitalisation rates for intentional self-harm, by gender and age group, 2008 (rates per 100,000 population) 9 Figure 5: Suicide rates, by age group and sex, 2008 (rates per 100,000 population) 10 Fi