The economic cost in Canada was assessed to be at least $7.9 billion in 1998, of which 59 per cent consisted of direct health care costs and 41 per cent was attributed to indirect costs related to disability and premature death.2 In 2010, 68.3 per cent of New Brunswickers 12 and older who participated in the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) reported their mental health status as being excel [...] As biology and genetics, gender, in the CCHS remained below identifi ed by the Public Health child development, cultural the national average across Agency of Canada, a number of diff erences, growing urban- the period between 2003 and factors can potentially infl uence rural splits, health services, and 2010 (Figure 3).3 In 2010, New diff erences in mental-health social processes that aff ect the [...] Hospitalizations due to mental and behavioural disorders As with other health conditions, global standard for diagnostic accounting for 6.0 per cent of all mental conditions can result classifi cation and coding.6 The hospitalizations due to diseases, in help-seeking, diagnosis and tenth revision, adapted and injuries and related health treatment, including, in some known in Canada as ICD-10-CA, p [...] For the same conditions in Canada and New year, mental and behavioural Brunswick through clinical During the 2005-06 fi scal disorders accounted for 10.8 and medical services data is year, more than 5,000 acute- per cent of overall days spent in the International Classifi cation care hospitalizations in New Brunswick hospitals. [...] These of Diseases and Related Health New Brunswick were due fi gures were lower than the Problems (ICD), adopted by the to mental and behavioural national fi gures of 7.6 and 16.1 World Health Organization as the disorders (ICD-10-CA: F00-F99), per cent, respectively.7 Mood and anxiety disorders Mood disorders (e.g., depression, forms of medical attention for strike at any age.
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