Description
Suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal death in high-income countries, yet it remains one of the least documented and least publicly discussed aspects of maternal health. In Poland there is still no systematic effort to identify how many women die by suicide or attempt suicide during pregnancy and in the first year after childbirth. This absence of reliable data means that policymakers, clinicians, and the public are unable to assess the true scale of the problem or design effective prevention strategies. This investigation asks a fundamental public-health question: why do maternal mental-health crises remain largely invisible in healthcare systems that otherwise place enormous social value on motherhood?
“Our project investigates suicide and suicide attempts among new mothers in Poland – a leading and largely preventable cause of maternal death in the year after birth that the country’s official statistics still barely capture.” – Anna Pamuła, journalist OKO.press
Project Team
Media outlet
OKO.press / Foundation Center of Civic Control OKO
Warsaw, Poland
https://oko.press/
Anna Pamuła
Reporter/journalist
Poland
Research organisation
University of Gdańsk
Gdańsk, Poland
https://en.ug.edu.pl/
Małgorzata Chrzan-Dętkoś
Associate Professor in Psychology
Poland
