Beyond Screening—Building a Maternal Mental Health Care System
This Viewpoint, using postpartum psychosis (PPP) as an example, raises questions about the ability of the US health care system to identify and treat perinatal mental illnesses; highlights recent progress and suggests ways to further improve; and calls for system changes to ensure that all patients with perinatal mental illnesses are identified and treated.
Authors
- Sugy Choi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-2861)
- Elizabeth M. Fitelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8131-6493)
- Jonathan Cantor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-833X)
- Catherine Monk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0831-3584)
Institutions
- RAND Corporation (US)
- New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
- New York University (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA
- Published
- 2026-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.21767
- Primary Topic
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00