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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]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Modelling the cost of place of birth: a pathway analysis [2021]

Bangladesh

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors associated with the utilization of institutional delivery services in Bangladesh [2017]

Benin

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Individual and community-level factors associated with home birth: a mixed effects regression analysis of 2017–2018 Benin demographic and health survey [2021]

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]

Czech Republic

• Central European Journal of Public Health
  • Complications of planned home births in the Czech Republic between 2016-2017 [2020]

East Africa

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Pooled prevalence and determinants of skilled birth attendant delivery in East Africa countries: a multilevel analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Pooled prevalence and associated factors of health facility delivery in East Africa: Mixed-effect logistic regression analysis [2021]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Spatio-temporal distribution and associated factors of home delivery in Ethiopia. Further multilevel and spatial analysis of Ethiopian demographic and health surveys 2005–2016 [2020]
  • Spatial clustering and determinants of home birth after at least one antenatal care visit in Ethiopia: Ethiopian demographic and health survey 2016 perspective [2020]
  • Institutional delivery service utilization and associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and META-analysis [2020]

• BMJ Open
  • Trends and determinants of home delivery in Ethiopia: further multivariate decomposition analysis of 2005–2016 Ethiopian Demographic Health Surveys [2020]

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Why Women in Ethiopia Give Birth at Home? A Systematic Review of Literature [2021]
  • Factors associated with institutional delivery service utilization in Ethiopia [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Birth in a Health Facility –Inequalities among the Ethiopian Women: Results from Repeated National Surveys [2014]

• Scientific Reports
  • The effect of lack of ANC visit and unwanted pregnancy on home child-birth in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Gambia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Predictors of institutional delivery service utilization among women of reproductive age in Gambia: a cross-sectional analysis [2020]

Ghana

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence, progress, and social inequalities of home deliveries in Ghana from 2006 to 2018: insights from the multiple indicator cluster surveys [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • What influences home delivery among women who live in urban areas? Analysis of 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey data [2021]

Guinea

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Non-utilization of health facility delivery and its correlates among childbearing women: a cross-sectional analysis of the 2018 Guinea demographic and health survey data [2020]

High-income countries

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Perinatal or neonatal mortality among women who intend at the onset of labour to give birth at home compared to women of low obstetrical risk who intend to give birth in hospital: A systematic review and meta-analyses [2019]

India

• Advances in Therapy
  • Maternal Delivery at Home: Issues in India [2021]

• BMC Public Health
  • Why women choose to deliver at home in India: a study of prevalence, factors, and socio-economic inequality [2021]

International

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

• Systematic Reviews
  • Global stakeholder perspectives of home birth: a systematic scoping review [2021]

Ireland

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

Italy

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Low-Risk Planned Out-of-Hospital Births: Characteristics and Perinatal Outcomes in Different Italian Birth Settings [2020]

Low and middle income countries

• SSM - Population Health
  • Prevalence of home birth among 880,345 women in 67 low- and middle-income countries: A meta-analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys [2021]

Mozambique

• Reproductive Health
  • Prevalence of institutional delivery and its correlates amongst women of reproductive age in Mozambique: a cross-sectional analysis [2020]

Nepal

• PLoS ONE
  • Determinants of home delivery in Nepal – A disaggregated analysis of marginalised and non-marginalised women from the 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey [2020]

Netherlands

• PLoS ONE
  • Regional variations in childbirth interventions and their correlations with adverse outcomes, birthplace and care provider: A nationwide explorative study [2020]

Nigeria

• BMJ Open
  • Home childbirth among young mothers aged 15–24 years in Nigeria: a national population-based cross-sectional study [2019]

Pakistan

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

South Asia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Institutional delivery in public and private sectors in South Asia: a comparative analysis of prospective data from four demographic surveillance sites [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors influencing place of delivery: Evidence from three south-Asian countries [2021]

Spain

• Sociedad Española de Neonatología
  • Home births: A growing phenomenon with potential risks [2021]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Journal of Perinatal Medicine
  • Midwife-assisted planned home birth: an essential component of improving the safety of childbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and determinants of the place of delivery among reproductive age women in sub–Saharan Africa [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • Drivers and deterrents of facility delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2013]

Tanzania

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Determinants for choice of home birth over health facility birth among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: an analysis of data from the 2015-16 Tanzania demographic and health survey and malaria indicator survey [2020]

Uganda

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Factors associated with health facility utilization during childbirth among 15 to 49-year-old women in Uganda: evidence from the Uganda demographic health survey 2016 [2021]

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]

• Medical Law Review
  • The Medicalisation of Childbirth and Access to Homebirth in the UK: Covid-19 and Beyond [2021]

• Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
  • RQIA Guideline for Planning to Birth at Home in Northern Ireland (2019) [2019]

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Providing Care for Infants Born at Home [2020]
  • 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]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Cost of Home Birth in the United States [2021]

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Prevalence of Home Births and Associated Risk Profile and Maternal Characteristics, 2016–2018 [2020]

• 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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