The impact of maternal mental health problems on infants in high income countries has been identified mostly in terms of psychosocial and emotional development, thanks to the groundbreaking early work of Spitz (2) and of Bowlby (3), who studied the emotional needs of infants and mother-child attachm...ent. Subsequently, a large body of literature, also from HICs, documented the effects of maternal mental health on the child's psychological development (4), intellectual competence(5), psychosocial functioning (6) and rate of psychiatric morbidity (7, 8).
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WHO six-year strategy for the health sector and community capacity development.
Guidelines for District Health Managers
Global concerns: Implications for the future
Child Mental Health Atlas
Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package
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Background book on Management of the Child with a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition