Case Study1: Planning for Mental Health Services Assignment
Read/Review: Chapter 11, Case Study 11.2
Respond to the following question sets. Include a description of how you derived the response.
1. What proportion of treated patients with severe mental disorders was treated by general
practitioners only? Explain your response.
2. What proportion of patients with severe mental disorders was not treated by health
services? Explain your answer with help from the data provided/calculated?
3. Based on the data presented in Table 11.5, what are the resource implications of
recommended targets in Queensland for inpatient acute and non-acute beds, ambulatory Based on the information in Table 11.5, what are the resource implications of the recommended targets for acute and non-acute inpatient beds, clinical staffing for ambulatory care, and the financial implications of NGO-managed community support services from 2005 to 2017?
care clinical staffing, and financial implications of NGO-managed community support
services in 2005-2017?
4. In addition to planning agencies, describe additional direct and indirect methods of
healthcare planning.
Case Study2 : Prospective Cohort Study Assignment
Read/Review: Chapter 14, Case Study 14.2
Respond to the following question sets. Include a description of how you derived the response.
1. What research question was addressed in this study, or what hypothesis was tested?
2. Why are incidence rates of DM in this study reported per 1,000 person-months rather
than per 100 per 1,000 women, and what does person-months mean?
3. What do hazard rations in Table 14.14 indicate? Are these results statistically significant?
Explain your answer
4. Why in this study were the estimates of the health outcome (DM) statistically adjusted for
variables such as age, maternal risk factors, neonatal outcomes, and postpartum maternal
lifestyle?
