Caesarean delivery rates and pregnancy outcomes: the 2005 WHO global survey on maternal and perinatal health in Latin America.

By J. Villar, E. Valladares, D. Wojdyla, N. Zavaleta, G. Carroli, A. Velazco, A. Shah, L. Campódonico, V. Bataglia, A. Faúndes and 9 more. The Lancet, 2006

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Risk of respiratory morbidity in term infants delivered by elective caesarean section: cohort study (2007, background): “Deliveries by caesarean section continue to increase in both developed and developing countries. Rates as high as 50% have been reported in some regions of Latin America.”
• Caesarean section without medical indications is associated with an increased risk of adverse short-term maternal outcomes: the 2004-2008 WHO Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health (2010, background): “The project has been implemented in three continental steps, and each continental analysis has shown an association between caesarean section and an increased risk of adverse maternal outcomes [ 5-7 ,14,15].”
• The global numbers and costs of additionally needed and unnecessary caesarean sections performed per year: overuse as a barrier to universal coverage (2010, background): “[3,6] Both studies assessed the association between CS rates and mortality and morbidity in mothers and neonates, and found no reductions in those indicators when frequency of caesarean section was more than 15%.”