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Friday, October 8, 2021
Dear John,
October’s Leading To Health article is focused on postpartum psychosis treatment in England’s mother-baby joint inpatient units.
New Mothers In Psychiatric Crisis
In the newest Leading To Health article, April Dembosky takes readers to a Mother and Baby Unit in England where mother-baby joint inpatient admissions are the standard of care for postpartum psychosis.
The average length-of-stay in Mother and Baby Units is eight weeks. During that time, mothers receive treatment for their psychosis symptoms and bond with their children, learning from child development psychologists and infant nurses.
Even after the mother and baby are discharged, the care continues with regular nurse visits at home. “These ‘health visitors’ are a feature of routine care in England—they visit women who’ve had typical birth experiences as well,” explains Dembosky.
While Mother and Baby Units exist in several countries, there are none in the US. Although maternal mortality in the US is twice that of other high-income countries and mental health problems are among the leading causes of maternal death, only a handful of other hospitals have opened their own perinatal or women-only psych units in the US.
For all of Health Affairs’ Leading To Health articles, visit our website.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Michael Ciarametaro and coauthors argue that it is essential to examine how enactment of international reference pricing policies may affect future innovation and patient outcomes.
Frank Lin and Marilyn Albert argue that an expansion of Medicare to include hearing aids and related hearing rehab services could help prevent dementia.
Elevating Voices: Hispanic Heritage Month: An April 2019 blog post argues for better acknowledgement of people of color and immigrants in rural
America whose narratives are often lost in discussion of health risks for rural populations.
Listen to our latest podcasts. On today’s episode of This
Week, editors discuss research insights from the October paper cluster on perinatal mental health.
Behind The Pages: Perinatal Mental Health Issue Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack, Ellen Bayer, and Kathleen Haddad discuss the publication process and research insights from the October 2021 issue on perinatal mental health.
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