Birth in Brazil: national survey into labour and birth
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Birth in Brazil: national survey into labour and birth
BACKGROUND Caesarean section rates in Brazil have been steadily increasing. In 2009, for the first time, the number of children born by this type of procedure was greater than the number of vaginal births. Caesarean section is associated with a series of adverse effects on the women and newborn, and recent evidence suggests that the increasing rates of prematurity and low birth weight in Brazil...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reproductive Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1742-4755
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-9-15