Debra Bick

Nov 3, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Emily J. Callander |Debra Bick |Hema Mistry

1 INTRODUCTION Maternity care is challenged by increasing rates of high cost medical interventions in low-risk service users without demonstrable improvement in health outcomes, and with evidence of significant long-term harm, including negative effects on physical, mental, and social, well-being for birthing people postpregnancy, as well as negative developmental effects for children over their lifetime.1, 2 Combined with low levels of satisfaction with care,3 rapidly escalating costs,4 and...