ArticleHealth economics review2018
Prenatal care and socioeconomic status: effect on cesarean delivery.
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- Optimal Timing of Term Births by Maternal Region of Birth: Elective Induction of Labor Compared to Expectant Management in Victoria, Australia.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2026Article
- Risk of postpartum depression in women with cesarean delivery after previous vaginal birth: a retrospective observational study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Observational
- Prevalence, urban-rural disparity and determinants of caesarean section delivery among women delivering at health facilities in 48 low- and middle-income countries: a multilevel and decomposition analysis.BMJ global health · 2025Article
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- Temporal trends and associated factors in cesarean section use in the Philippines: an analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data from 1993 to 2017.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic disparities in low-risk cesarean birth in California.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Overlapping social structures behind Brazil's cesarean section births: A decomposition analysis.PloS one · 2025Article
- The association of travel burden with prenatal care utilization, what happens after provider-selection.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Staff Resources in Public and Private Hospitals and Their Implication for Medical Practice: A French Study of Caesareans.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the Administration of General Anesthesia.Anesthesia and critical care (Houston, Tex.) · 2024Article
- Education as Risk Factor of Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Link to the Gut Microbiome.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2024Article
- A Higher Maternal Education Level Could Be a Critical Factor in the Exceeded Cesarean Section Delivery in Indonesia.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Reduce, reinforce, and replenish: safeguarding the early-life microbiota to reduce intergenerational health disparities.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Variations in the prevalence of caesarean section deliveries in India between 2016 and 2021 - an analysis of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cesarean deliveries are widely used in many high- and middle-income countries. This overuse both increases costs and lowers quality of care and is thus a major concern in the healthcare industry. The study first examines the impact of prenatal care utilization on cesarean delivery rates. It then determines whether socioeconomic status affects the use of prenatal care and thereby influences the cesarean delivery decision. Using exclusive French delivery data over the 2008-2014 period, with multilevel logit models, and controlling for relevant patient and hospital characteristics, we show that women who do not participate in prenatal education have an increased probability of a cesarean delivery compared to those who do. The study further indicates that attendance at prenatal education varies according to socioeconomic status. Low socioeconomic women are more likely to have cesarean deliveries and less likely to participate in prenatal education. This result emphasizes the importance of focusing on pregnancy health education, particularly for low-income women, as a potential way to limit unnecessary cesarean deliveries. Future studies would ideally investigate the effect of interventions promoting such as care participation on cesarean delivery rates.
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