Monday, April 8, 2024 | The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
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ICYMI, Emily Dossett and Karen Tabb Dina appeared on A Health Podyssey to discuss their paper that identifies specific policies to meet perinatal mental health challenges and promote thriving for birthing people and their families.
In 2006, New Jersey implemented universal depression screening, requiring all birthing people to be screened before hospital discharge.
In Health Affairs’ April Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being issue, Slawa Rokicki of Rutgers University examines the associations between depressive symptom severity and infant emergency department (ED) use during the first year of life among infants born in New Jersey between 2016–18
She finds that perinatal depressive symptoms were associated with increased overall and nonemergent infant ED use.
Health Affairs' Kathleen Haddad and Rob Lott go behind the pages of the new April issue focusing on Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being.
Their conversation provides insight into what has changed since Health Affairs published our first theme issue on the subject, which featured papers left a resounding impact on the editors, and so much more.
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