Influence of women's legal status on pregnancy outcomes and quality of care: Findings from the Pregnancy of Migrants in Switzerland (PROMISES) program.

ABSTRACT: In 2020, approximately 281 million people lived in a country other than their country of birth. In Geneva, Switzerland, people born in other countries constitute 40.2% of the population. We aimed to describe the population of pregnant women delivering at the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) maternity department and to identify associations between legal status, migration status, and economic precarity with quality care and health outcomes. We performed an exploratory cross-sectional retrospective study including all women who delivered in HUG's maternity department in May 2019 (n=339). The group was sub-divided in three ways: by migration status (Swiss (S) or migrant (M)); by legal status (documented (D), undocumented (U), or asylum seeker (AS)); and economic precariousness (precarious

SUBMITTER: de Weck E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12011233 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature