TABLE 3.

Human resources serving adult and child and adolescent Community Mental Health Services.

Variable	Norms for adult CMHS only3/100 000 population	City of Johannesburg		Ekurhuleni		Sedibeng		West Rand
		n	/100 000	n	/100 000	n	/100 000	n	/100 000
General nurses	9.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Psychiatric nurses	3.9	26	0.6	6	0.2	17	1.9	8	1.0
Occupational therapists	3.5	14†	0.3†	13†	0.4†	5†	0.5†	3†	0.4†
OTAs	7.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Social workers	6.0	25†	0.6†	17†	0.5†	11†	1.2†	13†	1.6†
Psychologists	2.5	16	0.4	13	0.4	2	0.2	3	0.4
Psychiatrists	0.4	1	0.02	1	0.03	2	0.2	1	0.1
Registrars/medical officers	1.8	8	0.2	5	0.2	5	0.5	3	0.4
Managers	0.5	1	0.02	1	0.03	1	0.1	1	0.1

Source: Lund and Flisher 2009

CMHS, Community Mental Health Services; OTA, Occupational Therapy Assistant; PHC, primary health care.

^†Serve the whole of PHC as well as CMHS, residential and day care facilities.