Canadian Community Health Survey, 2012: Mental Health Component

The CCHS is a comprehensive look at mental health with respect to who is affected by selected mental disorders as well as positive mental health. It will also examine access to and utilization of formal and informal mental health care services and supports. It will look at how people are functioning regardless of whether they have a mental health problem. The objectives of the CCHS - Mental Health are: To assess the mental health status of Canadians on both illness and positive mental health continuums through selected mental and substance disorders, mental health problems, and well-being; To assess timely, adequate, and appropriate access to and utilization of formal and informal mental health services and supports as well as perceived needs; To assess functioning, ability and disability in relation to mental health and illness; To examine links between mental health and social, demographic, geographic, and economic variables or characteristics (covariates); and To evaluate changes in patterns of mental health, service use, and functioning from the 2002 CCHS on Mental Health and Well-being.