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Table 1 Rate of postpartum women responding positively to Question 10 on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

From: The tip of the iceberg: postpartum suicidality in Israel

Source

Yeara

N

Region/area

Q10 > 0

(%)

Comment

Glasser et al. [34]b

1995

288

Central Israel

8.7

Low SES Jewish population, high rate of new immigrants

Glasser et al. [30]b

2001

259

Central & Southern Israel

0.8

Five cities

Glasser [35]

2003–5

6612

Country-wide

0.9

Six HMO districts (range 0.7–4.1%)

Glasser et al. [31]

2009

2764

Northern Israel

2.1

Arab population

Alfayumi-Zeadna et al. [32]

2008–9

564

Southern Israel

2.7

Beduin population

Cwikel et al. [33]

2014

1000

Central Israel

1.0

Jewish population

Rubinc

2015

131,905

Country-wide

0.4

Ministry of Health databased

Fishe

2014–6

22,423

Country-wide

0.3

HMO database, generally of higher SES

  1. aYear of data collection
  2. bData not included in publication
  3. cRubin, L., Ministry of Health, personal communication, 2017
  4. dSample not necessarily representative, but based on broad geographical distribution 
  5. eFish, R., Maccabi Health Services, personal communication, 2017