Implementing Professional Midwife-Led Maternity Care in India for Healthy Pregnant Women: A Community Case Study

• Main Authors: Andy Beckingham (Author), Soo Downe (Author), Evita Fernandez (Author), Becky Reed (Author), Indie Kaur (Author), Nuzhat Aziz (Author), Carol Kingdon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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More women and neonates die each year in India than in almost every other country of the world. Since 1947, India has in principle provided free medical maternal health care to all pregnant and childbearing women. Although rates of maternal and neonatal deaths have fallen since the 1990s, major ineq...