New Classroom Edition of The Business of Being Born
The classroom edition of The Business of Being Born has been released! Click here for more information and to order the DVD and package.
More Business of Being Born
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein continue their provocative and entertaining exploration of the modern maternity care system in this all-new four part DVD series.
Birth by the Numbers
Gene Declercq, PhD, Professor of Maternal and Child Health at Boston University, presents jaw-dropping statistics about birth in the United States. Explore the tabs above for more U.S. and international data.
Watch Birth by The Numbers
In the short movie “Birth by the Numbers,” Gene Declercq, PhD, Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, presents sobering statistics about birth in the United States. Providing credible data-based evidence, this 20-minute film debunks popular myths about what’s driving the United States cesarean rate increase.
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New 2010 preliminary data were issued by the US National Center for Health Statistics. According to these data, cesarean births experienced the first decrease since 1996, dropping from 32.9% in 2009 to 32.8% in 2010. Louisiana recorded the highest rate of cesarean section births (39.7%) followed by New Jersey (38.7%), then Florida (37.8%).
