The National Women’s Health Information Center’s (NWHIC) featured health article for October is on postpartum depression. I think it’s a good article, but I’m a little biased since I wrote it! ;>) Please check it out and share it with others. The site, womenshealth.gov, is part of the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Women’s Health. It offers free health information on hundreds of topics specific to the health of women and girls. Thanks go to Katherine Cruise at National Depression Screening Day for getting the Office of Women’s Health to put up this article.
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Tags: postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, baby blues, postpartum OCD, post partum depression
Thank you for talking about National Depression Screening day. Screening for depression is one of the most effective ways of catching this disabling condition so that it can be effectively treated. But why only 1 day a year? Because it takes too long to administer the screening. To overcome that, we at AuroraMD, automated the screening process, so that it happens automatically in the primary care waiting room with little staff time. Then the results are presented to the doctor in the exam room.
See our website http://www.auroramd.com
Is your doctor screening everyday?