Midwifery care and birth centers
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Center for Mississippi Health Policy)
- Contributor(s):
- Center for Mississippi Health Policy, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Jackson, MS : Center for Mississippi Health Policy, May 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Birthing Centers -- statistics & numerical data Midwifery -- statistics & numerical data Mississippi United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- As Mississippians cope with a lack of obstetric services in over half of counties in the state, an increasing number of women desire to have less-medicalized births outside of a typical hospital setting. The number of planned births that occurred outside of a hospital in Mississippi grew by 68 percent between 2007 and 2017 as did births attended by midwives. Midwifery care is being explored across the country as a way to alleviate workforce shortages and offer safe, community-based care in low-risk pregnancies.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101773774 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773774