This review aims to examine the prevalence and incidence of postpartum depression among
healthy mothers without prior history of depression including postpartum depression and�…

Maternal depression, a non-psychotic depressive episode of mild to major severity, is one of
the major contributors of pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality. Maternal depression�…

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric
disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common�…

Background Approximately 13% of women experience postpartum depression. Early
recognition is one of the most difficult challenges with this mood disorder because of how�…

Poverty and associated health, nutrition, and social factors prevent at least 200 million
children in developing countries from attaining their developmental potential. We review the�…

This paper is the third in the Child Development Series. The first paper showed that more
than 200 million children under 5 years of age in developing countries do not reach their�…

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) is currently considered to
be 10–15%. Most studies were performed with a brief unidimensional instruments (mostly�…

OBJECTIVE: This study described the natural history of depression in mothers who recently
gave birth in a low-income country and to investigate the effect of risk factors, particularly�…

This review examined the available prevalence estimates of suicidality (suicide deaths,
attempts, and ideation including thoughts of self harm) in pregnancy and the postpartum�…

This report on integrating mental health into primary care, which was developed jointly by
the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization of Family Doctors�…