[Use of regional health administrative databases to estimate the prevalence of mental disorders and health service utilization in a Local Health Unit of Tuscany Region (Central Italy)].

Objectives: prevalence estimation of mental disorders and mental health services (SSM) utilization in 2011, using the administrative regional health databases (hospital discharge records, pharmaceutical prescriptions) and the Regional Database on Mental Health (SIRSM).

Study Design: descriptive population-based study.

Setting And Participants: residents in a Local Health Unit (Florence) of Tuscany Region (Central Italy) who have access to SSM and/or to hospital departments of psychiatry/neuropsychiatry and/ or have psycholeptic/psychoanalectic prescriptions.