C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization

• Tác giả: Catalina Herrera-Almanza
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 617.9 Operative surgery and special fields of surgery
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 329490
• Chủ đề: 1. C-SECTIONS; 2. HEALTH CARE SPECIALIZATION; 3. MATERNAL MORTALITY; 4. NEWBORN HEALTH; 5. OBESITY

Tóm tắt

This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher cesarean section (CS) rates and the consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of hospitals' patient pools may affect the quantity and quality of care by focusing on the use of CS and the potential returns to specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of childbearing age. Exploiting temporal and hospital variation of this measure, results show that higher hospital-level obesity increases a woman's probability of having a CS. Also, delivery-related birth outcomes improve: maternal mortality, birth injuries, and birth trauma decrease. The evidence is consistent with hospital-level specialization in CS leading to better birth outcomes.