Healthy Beginnings – Developing perinatal & infant mental health services in New Zealand
New Zealand Parliament
Ministry of Health New Zealand
Country Resources
Child and Youth Mental Health Policies, Laws, Strategies & Plans, Service Standards
New Zealand
1 January 2011
Policy document
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Description
Healthy Beginnings provides guidance to district health boards (DHBs), and other healthplanners, funders and providers of perinatal and infant mental health and alcohol and
other drug (AOD) services, on ways to build on existing service provision to address the
mental health and AOD needs of mothers and infants. The document is not a clinical
guideline but it is informed by current literature and experience in clinical best practice.
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