It's a key component. In 2022, we carried out an activity with the Alliance québécoise pour la santé mentale périnatale, or Quebec alliance for perinatal mental health. We recently had the chance to share our results at an event organized by the Daymark Foundation, which brought together Canadian policy‑makers.
We spoke with a number of target individuals who can affect mental health, particularly women's health in Quebec. We identified three major obstacles. One obstacle is the integration of resources. There are already resources, but their interconnectedness poses an issue. Efforts are duplicated and work is done in silos.
We must first acknowledge that perinatal mental health is a public health issue. We must then determine how to reorganize and integrate many of the players involved. We also saw this at the Daymark Foundation event. It was demonstrated that a number of key community players could be better integrated into the health care system to ease the burden of this transition. We must assess the existing resources and determine how to combine them to make this feasible and achievable.