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Understanding Birth Better
Home Birth and Home Birth Safety Research
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We undertake
original research on
home birth & home birth safety.
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We locate, evaluate and synthesize epidemiologic research evidence
from the scientific medical literature to better understand the risks
and benefits of a low-intervention approach to birth, as provided
primarily by midwives to low-risk pregnant women during pregnancy, birth
and postpartum.
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We produce evidence regarding the safety of home birth and make it
available
for the benefit of mothers, midwives, legislators and other
groups.
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The Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane
Collaboration is an international, independent,
not-for-profit organization of over 28,000 contributors from more than 100
countries, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the
effects
of health care readily available worldwide.
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world leaders in evidence-based health care
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Our
contributors work together to produce systematic reviews of healthcare
interventions, known as Cochrane Reviews, which are published online in The Cochrane Library.
Cochrane Reviews are intended to help providers, practitioners and patients
make informed decisions about health care, and are the most comprehensive,
reliable and relevant source of
evidence on which to base these decisions.
Our mission
The Campbell Collaboration (C2) helps people make well-informed decisions by
preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews in education, crime
and justice, and social welfare.
Who are we?
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions. Campbell is based on
voluntary cooperation among researchers of a variety of backgrounds.
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Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded
in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the
quality of maternity care through
research, education, advocacy and
policy.Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying
evidence-based maternity
care and is a voice for the needs and interests
of childbearing families.
"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence..."
Gabrielle Palmer,
The Politics of Breastfeeding,
London: Pandora Press, 1988, page 1
