Medical Childbirth Made in the Czech Republic: Required and Desired Practices
Medical Childbirth Made in the Czech Republic: Required and Desired Practices

Author(s): Iva Šmídová
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Medical Childbirth; Czech Republic;
Summary/Abstract: A vast majority of childbirths (99.8%) take place in health facilities and are supervised by medical doctors in the Czech Republic (ÚZIS 2013: 19-20). The report on “Mother and Newborn 2012” refers to the growing trend where childbirth is performed under the control of a physician/obstetrician (80.2%) as opposed to midwives (18.9%, ÚZIS 2013: 19 and Table 2.26.2, p. 87). As for the place of birth, only 245 children, out of the 107,430 children born in 2012 in the Czech Republic, were born outside of hospital (ÚZIS 2013: 20and 24). The report presents the data as a downward trend in the number of births outside of hospital, presenting such events generally as accidents, which is supported by the high proportion of premature births among them (Ibid.).

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