Lancet Global Health Volume 6, ISSUE 2, Pe146-e147, February 01, 2018
2017 - 2025
Accessed: 06.03.2019
An overview on the health equity impact of policy and action: Is it making a difference? Why or why not?
For national authorities and health care practitioners
Part of the CBM Prevention Toolkit on “How to Improve the Health and Development of your Child”
The WMH Survey Initiative is a project of the Assessment, Classification, and Epidemiology (ACE) Group at the World Health Organization coordinating the implementation and analysis of general population epidemiologic surveys of mental, substance use, and behavioral disorders in countries in all WHO ...Regions.
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The mental health of women not only adversely affects them, but its impact on their
developing infant is also severe. If the ability of women to take care of their baby is
compromised, the survival and development of the infant is jeopardized. Maternal
depression in resource-constrained settings ...is linked directly to lower infant birth
weight, higher rates of malnutrition and stunting, higher rates of diarrhoeal disease,
infectious illness and hospital admission and reduced completion of recommended
schedules of immunization in children. It also adversely affects physical, cognitive,
social, behavioural and emotional development of children (1).
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