TABLE 2.
Use of the gatekeeper system for psychiatric care, by neighbourhood education quintile
| First contact | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohort population by sex and quintile | % of quintile with any mental health visit | |||
| F (n=746,618) | M (n=702,202) | F (n=446,129) | M (n=330,596) | |
| Q1 | 147,765 | 141,885 | 61.7 | 47.9 |
| Q2 | 148,767 | 142,625 | 60.2 | 47.4 |
| Q3 | 149,099 | 141,624 | 59.0 | 46.2 |
| Q4 | 150,454 | 140,278 | 59.0 | 46.6 |
| Q5 | 150,533 | 135,790 | 58.9 | 47.3 |
| Q5:Q1 ratio | 0.95 | 0.99 | ||
| Within the gatekeeper system | Bypassing the gatekeeper system | All psychiatric care | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % of mental health users with first visit to FP/GP | % of FP/GP users referred to psychiatry | % of mental health users with first visit to psychiatrist | % of mental health users with a psychiatry visit | |||||
| F (n=420,918) | M (n=308,104) | F (n=52,267) | M (n=36,968) | F (n=25,210) | M (n=22,491) | F (n=77,395) | M (n=59,414) | |
| Q1 | 95.8 | 95.0 | 11.8 | 11.1 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 15.4 | 15.9 |
| Q2 | 95.5 | 94.3 | 11.9 | 11.5 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 15.9 | 16.2 |
| Q3 | 95.3 | 94.4 | 11.8 | 11.5 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 15.9 | 16.5 |
| Q4 | 94.4 | 93.1 | 12.4 | 12.1 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 17.2 | 18.0 |
| Q5 | 90.7 | 89.0 | 14.3 | 14.0 | 9.3 | 11.0 | 22.4 | 23.5 |
| Q5:Q1 | 0.95 | 0.94 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.5 |