MEDIA COVERAGE
Going public: do risk and choice explain differences in caesarean birth rates between public and private places of birth in Australia?
MEDIA COVERAGE
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Doctors drive rising rate of caesareans, surveys find "Rising caesarean rates are driven by doctors, not women, and almost one in 10 patients are not consulted about the risks and consequences of the surgery, according to Queensland researchers." 20 March 2014 [Circulation: 141,699; Page 2] |
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The Australian
Birth "Think some pregnant women are too posh to push? Think again." 18 March 2014 [Circulation: 116,854; Page 14] |
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The Age
Doctors driving rising rates of caesareans, surveys find "Rising caesarean rates are driven by doctors, not women, and almost one in 10 patients are not consulted about the risks and consequences of the surgery, according to Queensland researchers." 20 March 2014 |
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Canberra Times
Doctors hold key to growth in caesareans "Rising caesarean rates are driven by doctors, not women, and almost one in 10 patients are not consulted about the risks and consequences of the surgery, according to Queensland researchers." 20 March 2014 [Circulation: 24,851; Page 6] |
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The Sunday Mail
Doctors behind caesarean rise "Caesarean births are on the rise due mainly to doctors, not women who are "too posh to push", a new study shows." 22 January 2012 [Circulation: 479,884; Page 42] |
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Brisbane Times
Doctors driving rising rates of caesareans, surveys find "Rising caesarean rates are driven by doctors, not women, and almost one in 10 patients are not consulted about the risks and consequences of the surgery, according to Queensland researchers." 20 March 2014 [11,280 unique daily visitors] |
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The Age
Doctors 'drive' caesareans "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are "too posh to push" is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 190,750; Page 7] |
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Toowoomba Chronicle
Women prefer natural births "Toowoomba mother Sheridan Coombs said she was just happy to meet her daughter even though giving birth to her by caesarean wasn't her original plan." 21 January 2012 [Circulation: 21,682; Page 3] |
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Albury-Wodonga Border Mail
Doctors push up caesarean rates "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 24,330; Page 14] |
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Launceston Examiner
Caesarean births not rising: study "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 30,793; Page 70] |
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Townsville Bulletin
Caesarean myth dispelled "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 27,475; Page 3] |
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Cairns Post
Caesarean birth myth dispelled by study "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 23,845; Page 5] |
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Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser
Caesarean myth dispelled by new study "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 11,353; Page 16] |
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Shepparton News
C-section belief dispelled "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 9,764; Page 16] |
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Geelong Advertiser
Vanity not to blame "The popular belief that caesareans are on the rise because women are too posh to push is incorrect, a new study shows." 19 January 2012 [Circulation: 27,543; Page 4] |
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The Conversation
Women’s magazines could play a role in promoting natural births "Several things contribute to the over-use of medical intervention in birth. Whether the hospital is publicly funded or a private one makes a difference, as do hospital policies that restrict birth options for certain women, such as those who’ve had a previous caesarean section." 1 May 2015 |
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The Epoch Times
Women's magazines could play a role in promoting natural births "Several things contribute to the over-use of medical intervention in birth. Whether the hospital is publicly funded or a private one makes a difference, as do hospital policies that restrict birth options for certain women, such as those who’ve had a previous cesarean section." 1 May 2015 |
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Queensland Times
Research explores the rise in C-section rates "Researchers from The University of Queensland's Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies (QCMB) have explored the reasons for the rising rates of caesarean sections in Queensland." 20 January 2012 [Circulation: 10,529; Page 12] |
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Medical Observer (now AusDoc)
Not too posh to push "The fact that maternity patients in private hospitals have high caesarean rates is no longer in question but until now experts have been divided as to why." 13 March 2014 |
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North West News
Too posh to push "UQ Researcher Professor Sue Kruske says caesarean rates increased by 174 per cent in 20 years." 25 January 2012 [Circulation: 43,085; Page 13] |
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Also covered by the following outlets on 20 March 2014 with the title, "Doctors driving rising rates of caesareans, surveys find":
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