Project Lead and Author: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss (co-investigator)
Publication: March 2023
Language: English (with German summary)
Up to 20% of women and 10% of men experience a mental illness during pregnancy and in the first year after birth. Due to the potentially severe effects on parents and child, there is an urgent need for rapid and effective care. This report provides a mapping of current care structures in Austria. The report is part of the FWF-funded research project "Co-designing perinatal mental health care in Tyrol". The report is to seen in connection with another report which has recently been published as part of the project and which describes the international recommendations on perinatal and infant mental health care (https://eprints.aihta.at/1420/1/HTA-Projektbericht_Nr.148.pdf).