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Afghanistan

• Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
  • National Guidelines for Safer Home Birth [2005]

Australia

• Australian College of Midwives
  • Australian College of Midwives Transfer from Planned Birth at Home Guidelines (2016) [2016]
  • Australian College of Midwives Birth at Home Midwifery Practice Standards [2016]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Home Births [2017]

Bhutan

• WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health
  • Factors associated with delivery at home in Bhutan: findings from the National Health Survey 2012 [2018]

Canada

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • The Canadian birth place study: examining maternity care provider attitudes and interprofessional conflict around planned home birth [2014]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Statement on Planned Homebirth [2019]

International

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Planned home birth: benefits, risks, and opportunities [2015]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Home Birth policies and procedures

Pakistan

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Is home delivery really preferred? a mixed-methods national study in Pakistan [2015]

United Kingdom

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Perinatal and maternal outcomes in planned home and obstetric unit births in women at ‘higher risk’ of complications: secondary analysis of the Birthplace national prospective cohort study [2015]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Planned Home Birth [2013]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Planned Home Birth [2017]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Trends in Out-of-Hospital Births in the United States, 1990–2012 [2014]

• PLoS ONE
  • Neonatal Mortality of Planned Home Birth in the United States in Relation to Professional Certification of Birth Attendants [2016]

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