Women with a history of depression are at greater risk of postpartum depression than are women without such a history, and psychiatrists need to be sensitive to this association, suggest findings from a study to be published in the October American Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers found that about one in seven women was identified with and treated for depression in a period spanning 39 weeks prior to pregnancy and 39 weeks after pregnancy. Read more from Psychiatric News>>
Enhanced and systematic efforts to identify and treat depression in the workplace significantly improves employee health and productivity, likely leading to lower costs overall for the employer, according to a study published September 26, 2007, in the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
Read more from the National Institute of Mental Health>>Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton responded to the Institute for Women's Policy Research's ranking of
Wisconsin as 48
th out of 50 states in the number of poor mental health days experienced by women by convening a high level Task Force on Women and Depression in 2005. Lieutenant Governor Lawton recognizes that untreated mental illness, and depression specifically, has far-reaching implications for all
Wisconsin citizens. Not one of us is more than one degree removed from someone who has suffered at least an episode of mental illness, and the economic impact on employers and on the state as a whole is significant.
Read more in the Lt. Governor's Report>>
