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Mental Health Living Longer

Mental Health Living Longer

Professor Philip Burgess is a Chief Investigator on Mental Health Living Longer (MHLL), a program using population-wide data linkage to support research translation and service reform in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

MHLL uses data from over 120 million records linked across NSW data collections including public and private hospital care, emergency departments, ambulance, community mental health services, cancer notifications and care, and death registrations. Data will be updated every 6 months.

The MHLL programme will examine four themes: (i) all-cause mortality, (ii) suicide, (iii) cancer mortality and (iv) medical mortality. Within each theme, the programme will quantify the problem in mental health service users compared with the NSW population, describe the people most affected, describe the care received, identify predictors of premature mortality, and identify variation and opportunities for change.

The first paper from the program, describing the MHLL cohort, is available here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033588

Project team
Philip Burgess

Funding
NSW Ministry of Health

Projects

HEAD OFFICE

Level 3, Dawson House
The Park Centre for Mental Health Treatment
Research and Education, Wacol, QLD 4076
P: +61 7 3271 8660

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

The Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR) acknowledges the Jagera, Yuggera, Ugarapul and Turrbal people as the Traditional Owners of the land on which QCMHR operates and their continuing connections to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present and stand together with all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

RECOGNITION OF LIVED EXPERIENCE

We acknowledge people in our communities with lived experience of mental health, drug and alcohol concerns and those who care for them. We respect and value their generous contributions to our research.