Cesarean Section Rates and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Low‐, Medium‐, and High‐Income Countries: An Ecological Study

Althabe, Fernando; Sosa, Claudio; M. Belizán, José; Gibbons, Luz; Jacquérioz, Frédérique; Bergel, Eduardo

doi:10.1111/j.1523-536x.2006.00118.x

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Cesarean Section Rates and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Low‐, Medium‐, and High‐Income Countries: An Ecological Study

Published in Birth • Nov 27, 2006

Authors:

Fernando Althabe

Claudio Sosa

José M. Belizán

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cesarean section rates show a wide variation among countries in the world, ranging from 0.4 to 40 percent, and a continuous rise in the trend has been observed in the past 30 years. Our aim was to explore the association of cesarean section rates of different countries with their materna...

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High income countries

Ecological study

Developing country

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