The Swedish women's choice of birthplace : Can Sweden offer similar financed birthplace benefits as in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands?

At the beginning of the 20th century, major technological changes occurred in maternity care in Europe. In connection with the introduction of good hand hygiene, advance medical equipment and use of disinfectants in the hospitals, obstetricians quickly noticed that maternal mortality decreased. This together with the rest of the medical equipment made hospital births safer. The hospitals became more attractive birth places instead of the homes. While the development from homebirth to hospital delivery went fast in Sweden, the midwives who worked in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands kept t... Mehr ...