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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Age differences in mental health literacy 1 1 1 1 Louise Farrer* , Liana Leach , Kathleen M Griffiths , Helen Christensen and Anthony F Jorm2 Address: 1Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia and 2ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Locked Bag 10, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia Email: Louise Farrer* - louise.farrer@.au; Liana Leach - liana.leach@.au; Kathleen M Griffiths - kathy.griffiths@.au; Helen Christensen - helen.christensen@.au; Anthony F Jorm - ajorm@.au * Corresponding author Published: 20 April 2008 Received: 11 September 2007 Accepted: 20 April 2008 BMC Public Health 2008, 8:125 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-125 This article is available from: /1471-2458/8/125 © 2008 Farrer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The communitys knowledge and beliefs about mental health problems, their risk factors, treatments and sources of help may vary as a function of age. Methods: Data were taken from an epidemiological survey conducted during 2003–2004 with a national cl