Better mental health support needed for new mums
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Better mental health support needed for new mums

Vari Drennan Professor of healthcare and policy research, Kingston University and St George’s, University of London

Health visitors (HVs) help new mothers to cope with mental health problems through support such as ‘listening visits’, but more attention should be paid to how such support can be improved, a survey suggests.

Primary Health Care. 29, 5, 9-9. doi: 10.7748/phc.29.5.9.s9

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