What is Driving High Cesarean Rates?

An interesting infographic has been circulating the blogspace illustrating how the rising trends in Cesarean section rates have impacted nations all around the globe. Despite the fact that the World Health Organization insists that cesareans should be performed in no more than 15% of deliveries, the cesarean rate in our country alone exceeds 30%. This is a pretty startling discrepancy between what is suggested and what is actually practiced by physicians, and it has been persisting through the past decade. Here's a very interesting article detailing what is actually behind the alarming cesarean rates, and how you can avoid being pressured into undergoing one for your own pregnancy.

The infographic can be shared from here

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