Defining the Perinatal Mental Health Workforce
Project Description
Despite the association of perinatal mental health disorders with infant and maternal morbidity, mortality, and economic cost, little is known about which types of professionals commonly treat patients with perinatal mental health needs, in what settings, and for what diagnoses and treatments. Using IBM MarketScan® Commercial Claims and Encounters data, this project investigated the perinatal mental health workforce across the U.S.