The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex
and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than …

Ontario Midwifery Program and the Niday Perinatal Database. These programmes worked
together to normalize their data and build a robust, web-based data-collection and reporting …

Background This study aimed to examine the relationships between various maternal
socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and the risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) …

Abstract Background Ontario's birth Registry (BORN) was established in 2009 to collect,
interpret, and share critical data about pregnancy, birth and the early childhood period to …

Background Despite the significant variability in the role and integration of midwifery across
provincial and territorial health systems, there has been limited scholarly inquiry into …

Background The risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) has been found to vary by maternal
socioeconomic status (SES) and rural-urban residence. In this study, we examined …

Abstract Purpose Since 2012, BORN Ontario, a maternal-newborn registry, has collected
data on every birth in Ontario. To ensure data quality, we assessed the reliability of key …

Background This study aims to evaluate the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the
risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) since previous studies have yielded inconsistent …

Introduction In 2014, 2 new freestanding midwifery‐led birth centers opened in Ontario,
Canada. As one part of a larger mixed‐methods evaluation of the first year of operations of …

Introdução. A implantação de centros de parto normal (CPN) é um instrumento da rede de
saúde que estimula o protagonismo e a autonomia feminina, bem como a aplicação das …