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Introduction - Carol Henshaw; 1. Screening, the role and recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee - Judy Shakespeare, GP, Oxford, UK; 2. Advantages and disadvantages of screening in clinical settings - Tessa Leverton, Imperial College School of Medicine; 3. One bite of the cherry: a resource dilemma - Sheelah Seeley and Ann Girling; 4. Two bites of the cherry: one solution? - Philip Boyce, University of Sydney, Australia, and Caroline Bell; 5. The EPDS as a tool for identifying new onset depression within the first postpartum year - Kathleen Peindl, Epidemiologist, Louisville, USA; 6. Screening in the context of integrated perinatal care - Bryanne Barnett, University of New South Wales, Australia, Patricia Glossop, Stephen Matthey and Helen Stewart; 7. The status of postpartum depression screening in the United States - Lisa Segre and Mike O'Hara, University of Iowa, USA; 8. Screening in developing countries - Dominic Lee and Tony Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong; 9. Screening where there is no screening scale - Abi Sobowale and Cheryll Adams; 10. Screening for women at risk of severe mental illness - Margaret Oates, University of Nottingham, UK; 11. Screening and the role of the midwife - Mary Davie, Lucinda Green and Sandra Elliott; 12. The Postpartum Depression Screening Scale - Cheryl Beck, University of Connecticut, USA; 13. What is the EPDS measuring and how should we use it in research? - Josephine Green, University of Leeds, UK; 14; Screening for perinatal depression: a denial of human reality - Walter Barker, Early Childhood Development Centre, Bristol, UK; 15. Acceptability of using the EPDS as a screening tool for postnatal depression - Jan Cubison, Maternal Mental Health Service, Sheffield, UK and Jane Munro; 16. What do black Caribbean women think about screening with the EPDS? - Dawn Edge, University of Manchester, UK; Conclusions - Sandra Elliott; Appendix 1; The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; Appendix 2; References to available translations and validation studies of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Postpartum Depression Screening Scale and other instruments used during pregnancy and postpartum; References; Index.