Dear All, (apologies for cross posting)
I am an MSc student at King's College, London. I am interested in exploring
the links or otherwise between deprivation, social class, ethnicity and
intervention rates in labour. This is clearly linked with outcomes. I am
looking for arguements that support or refute that women with greater
deprivation, more mixed ethnicity are per se more likely to NEED
intervention as an (assumed) result of increased pregnancy or intrapartum
problems, resulting from less than optimal health. This, of course, provides
the justification for innner-city hospitals with such populations to justify
their high intervention (and low normal birth) rates even without evidence
of improved mortality rates after these interventions.
I'd be really greatful for comments and suggestions for references.
Thanks alot,
Cathy Walton
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