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| Age, gender and ethnicity of those detained under Part II of the Mental Health Act 1983 | | Author(s) | Bernard Audini, Paul Lelliott |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 180, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp 222-226 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; In-patients ; Psychiatric units ; Psychiatric treatment ; Ethnic groups ; Population statistics ; Age group distribution statistics. |
| Annotation | "In-patients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983", the aggregate returns published by the Department of Health (DH) give limited information about those detained under the Act. The authors used data from 26 areas with a total population of 9.2 million, and data from the Census of population to standardise rates of detention by age, gender and ethnicity. The 31,702 detentions are distributed bimodally, with peaks at ages 25-34 and 80+. In the younger age group, detention rates are higher for men, whereas in the older age group there are more women. Detentions are over six times more likely to be of Blacks than of Whites (450 vs 68 per standardised 100,000 population), which is greater than previously thought. It is suggested that the excess of older women detained under Part II of the Act is largely due to men's lower life expectancy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021120201 A |
| Classmark | E: LF7: LDL: LP: TK: S4: S6 |
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