Recent strategies in perinatal mental health care in Japan

Problems of Perinatal Mental Health Care in Tokyo, Japan

Recently, a dramatic increase in pregnancies complicated by mental disorders has been observed in Tokyo, Japan [1, 2]. In 2014, the estimated number of deliveries complicated by mental disorders was 1,800 [2]. The rate of general hospital with psychiatric inpatient beds is only about 16% of the delivery facilities in Tokyo; however, about 36% of the deliveries with mental disorders were managed...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Post-disaster mental health care in Japan.

www.thelancet.com Vol 378 July 23, 2011 317 One main obstacle to being open to these questions is the pressure on epidemiologists, managers, and academics to collect data in a vertical fashion. Yet violence cannot be seen as detached from infectious disease, maternal mortality, drug addiction, or unemployment. The Family Health Strategy, cited in most of the Series papers, has been a vehicle by...

Australian mental health reform for perinatal care.

How to lower perinatal mortality? Perinatal care in Japan.

OBJECTIVE To review the 30-year history of perinatal medical care in Japan, and the recently initiated regionalization system of perinatal centers, new technologies and treatments in obstetric and neonatal medicine developed in Japan. STATISTICAL DATA: Maternal and neonatal health statistics of Japan released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japanese Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ...