Definition: Number of hospital discharges for mental health issues per 1,000 children and youth ages 5-19, by age group (e.g., in 2020, there were 9.1 hospital discharges for mental health issues per 1,000 California youth ages 15-19).
Data Source: California Dept. of Health Care Access and Information custom tabulation (Feb. 2022); California Dept. of Finance, Population Estimates and Projections (Jul. 2021).
Footnote: Data are based on the number of hospitalizations, not the number of children hospitalized. Data are limited to hospital admissions; emergency room visits that do not result in admission are excluded. A full list of mental diseases and disorders captured in these data can be found here. Disorders related to substance abuse are excluded. County-level data reflect the patient's county of residence, not the county in which the hospitalization occurred. Cases with unknown county of residence are included in California totals. Data are excluded for cases of patients with erroneous birth dates. The notation S refers to rates that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 20 cases, and to numbers and rates that have been suppressed by the California Dept. of Health Care Access and Information. N/A means that data are not available.
