Investigation

The research is based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of existing published studies on the topic. The data present in their paper comes from 21 studies, published since the year 1990. For the purposes of this research, they examined the data from developing countries. They are New Zealand, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. In addition to this, the study also considers 500,000 hospital births and compares them with the same number of home births.