Trends, Regional Variations, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cesarean Births in India, 2010-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The World Health Organization recommends that rates of cesarean delivery range from 10% to 15%. India has the largest annual number of births in the world and needs updates of existing estimates.

Objective

To provide a new set of estimates of the rates of cesarean delivery and to map regional and socioeconomic disparities within these rates in India.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional study primarily based on cross-sectional figures drawn from the fourth round of the National Family and Health Survey conducted from January 20, 2015, through December 4, 2016, by the Indian Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai. The survey interviewed 699 686 girls and women aged 15 to 49 years and collected information on their last 3 pregnancies since J

SUBMITTER: Guilmoto CZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583298 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature