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Article: Caesarean section--a woman's right to choose: ICM Central Europe Region workshop: regional representative Renske Drejer reports on a workshop held in Vienna, Austria, April 2004, to address an important issue for midwives.
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- International Midwifery
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Midwives in the Central Europe Region, along with many others around the world in both developed and developing countries, are very much concerned about the ongoing increase of the Caesarean section rate.
Facts and figures about Caesarean section rates in the member countries of this particular region have been reported and are shown in Table 1. These data have been collected by midwives from their own national sources.
What can midwives do?
Knowing these figures, we asked ourselves what we can do to influence the phenomenon of rising CS rates within the region. It was decided to organise a workshop on the subject of Caesarean section: ...