The silent burden: a landscape analysis of common perinatal mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health has long fallen behind physical health in attention, funding, and action-especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It has been conspicuously absent from global reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH) programming, despite increasing awareness of the intergenerational impact of common perinatal mental disorders (CPMDs). However, the universal health coverage (UHC) movement and COVID-19 have brought mental health to the forefront, and the MNCAH community is looking to understand how to provide women effective, sustainable care at scale. To address this, MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) commissioned a landscape analysis in December 2020 to assess the state of CPMDs and identify what is being done to addre

SUBMITTER: McNab SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9019797 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature