Hospital admissions for mental health conditions (0-17 years), per 100,000 population

Hospital admissions data for mental health conditions among individuals aged 0 to 17 years, standardized per 100,000 population. The dataset originates from the Government Digital Service and is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. The last update date and specific temporal or geographic coverage are not provided in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in pediatric mental health hospitalizations based on admission rates.
• Benchmark regional service utilization for child and adolescent mental health based on population-standardized rates.
• Inform public health policy and resource allocation for youth mental health services based on admission data.

Strengths

• Data is standardized per 100,000 population, enabling comparative analysis.
• Focuses on a specific demographic group (ages 0-17) for targeted insights.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, temporal coverage, and geographic scope are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national hospital admission records.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

unknown