Saraswathi Vedam:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6396-3638
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Kathrin Stoll: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Marian MacDorman: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: ResourcesRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Eugene Declercq: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Renee Cramer: Role: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Melissa Cheyney: Role: ConceptualizationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Timothy Fisher: Role: ConceptualizationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Emma Butt: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Y. Tony Yang: Role: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Holly Powell Kennedy: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Dongmei Li: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
21
February
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Electronic Location Identifier: e0192523
Affiliations
[1
]
Birth Place Lab, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[2
]
University of Sydney, School of Medicine, Sydney, Australia
[3
]
Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,
United States of America
[4
]
School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of
America
[5
]
Law, Politics and Society, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
[6
]
Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts, Corvallis,
Oregon, United States of America
[7
]
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University,
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
[8
]
Health Administration and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United
States of America
[9
]
Department of Midwifery, Yale School of Nursing, Orange, Connecticut, United States
of America
University of Rochester, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-24246
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192523
PMC ID: 5821332
PubMed ID: 29466389
SO-VID: 38d57ae2-063a-4d8b-9724-e0ed7e53cb53
Copyright © © 2018 Vedam et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Award ID: Transforming Birth Fund
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6396-3638
Saraswathi Vedam
This work was made possible by a grant from the Transforming Birth Fund of the New
Hampshire Charitable Foundation
https://www.nhcf.org/ and with infrastructure support by the University of British Columbia. The funders
had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or
preparation of the manuscript.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Professions
Subject:
Medical Personnel
Subject:
Midwives
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Maternal Health
Subject:
Birth
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject:
Birth
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Developmental Biology
Subject:
Neonates
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Population Biology
Subject:
Population Metrics
Subject:
Death Rates
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Birth Weight
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Parameters
Subject:
Body Weight
Subject:
Birth Weight
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Maternal Health
Subject:
Breast Feeding
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pediatrics
Subject:
Neonatology
Subject:
Breast Feeding
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Maternal Health
Subject:
Birth
Subject:
Labor and Delivery
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject:
Birth
Subject:
Labor and Delivery
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Maternal Health
Subject:
Birth
Subject:
Preterm Birth
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject:
Birth
Subject:
Preterm Birth
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Maternal Health
Subject:
Pregnancy
Subject:
Pregnancy Complications
Subject:
Preterm Birth
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Women's Health
Subject:
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subject:
Pregnancy
Subject:
Pregnancy Complications
Subject:
Preterm Birth