Developmental disorders
Chapter C.2
2014 Edition
Compendium of Case Studies
WHO GUIDELINES REVIEW COMMITTEE
A training manual for safe motherhood action groups (MAMaZ)
An action research conducted in Bang Shau village Northern Shan State, Myanmar
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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