On-demand cesarean section: assessing trends and socioeconomic disparities

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: to measure prevalence, evaluate trends and identify socioeconomic differences of on-demand cesarean section in the municipality of Rio Grande (RS), extreme south of Brazil, in 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. METHODS: all the puerperae residing in this municipality who had cesarean d...

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Main Authors: Kharen Carlotto, Luana Patrícia Marmitt, Juraci Almeida Cesar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2020-01-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102020000100200&tlng=en