Background The rate of elective Caesarean Section (CS) is rising in many countries. Many
obstetric units in the UK have either introduced or are planning to introduce enhanced …

Financial barriers can affect timely access to maternal health services. Health insurance can
influence the use and quality of these services and potentially improve maternal and …

Background In the past decade, the Government of China initiated health-care reforms to
achieve universal access to health care by 2020. We assessed trends in health-care access …

Background Caesarean section rates in Brazil have been steadily increasing. In 2009, for
the first time, the number of children born by this type of procedure was greater than the …

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors driving the rapid increase in caesarean section in China
between 1988 and 2008. METHODS: Data from four national cross-sectional surveys (1993 …

Objective To examine how the relaxation of the one child policy and policies to reduce
caesarean section rates might have affected trends over time in caesarean section rates and …

Policy makers, practitioners and researchers have identified risk as a key concept in relation
to maternity care and childbirth. There is however a lack of research exploring women's …

Background China is one of the few Countdown countries to have achieved Millennium
Development Goal 5 (75% reduction in maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2015) …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of sleep disturbances
during pregnancy with cesarean delivery and preterm birth. Methods: In this prospective …

The percentage of India's national budget allocated to the health sector remains one of the
lowest in the world, and healthcare expenditures are largely out-of-pocket (OOP). Currently …