Stepped care for maternal mental health: a case study of the perinatal mental health project in South Africa.
As one article in a series on Global Mental Health Practice, Simone Honikman and colleagues from South Africa provide a case study of the Perinatal Mental Health Project, which delivered mental health care to pregnant women in a collaborative, step-wise manner, making use of existing resources in primary care.
Perinatal Mental Health Project, The Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. simone.honikman@uct.ac.za
Simone
S
Honikman
Thandi
T
van Heyningen
Sally
S
Field
Emily
E
Baron
Mark
M
Tomlinson
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