Pregnancy-related mood and anxiety disorders occur during pregnancy, after giving birth, following adoption, and after a pregnancy loss. In Colorado, nearly 1 in 9 women who give birth will experience signs and symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. This makes pregnancy-related mood disorders the most common complication of pregnancy (PSI, 2018). 

What is mental health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. - MentalHealth.gov

What is scabies?
Scabies is an infestation of the skin by the human itch mite. The microscopic scabies mite burrows into the upper layer of the skin where it lives and lays its eggs.

Gastrointestinal (GI) illness is caused by a variety of different disease-causing germs that can be acquired by consuming contaminated food or beverages, contact with contaminated recreational water, infected animals or their environments, or infected people. These germs can cause a variety of symptoms, such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, body aches, headaches and sometimes rash.  The Communicable Disease staff monitor and investigate GI illnesses that are spread through food, water, person-to-person contact and contact with infected animals.

People need accurate information to adopt healthier lifestyles, but information alone does not change anyone’s behavior. Instead, people are motivated to make changes based on their own interests and goals. Motivational interviewing is a research-based communication technique that can help you explore people’s motivations and support them to make needed changes and adopt healthier behaviors. Learning to work with people’s own motivations helps you to avoid unproductive interactions, and can make you feel more confident and satisfied with your own work as a healthcare professional.