According to the World Health Organisation , The UK has one of the highest cesarean rates in the world. Discuss this statement sociologically, drawing on your knowledge about the medicalisation process (and particularly unnecessary medical intervention) to explain why this might be the case.
A cesarean section (CS) is a surgical process where
birth is through an incision in the wall of the uterus,
rather than through the vagina. In the 1950s, 3% of
births in England were by CS. By the early 1980s this
had risen to 10% and in the 1990s rates started to climb rapidly, from 12% in 1990 to 21% in 2001. These national figures mask local variations
where the CS rate ranges from 10% to 30% between
hospitals. The number of elective CS (where the
decision to carry out CS is taken before labour starts) has risen more slowly than the number of emergency CS.
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