About the Authors

Anna E. Seijmonsbergen-Schermers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

a.seijmonsbergen@amsterdamumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Thomas van den Akker

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Eva Rydahl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University College Copenhagen, Department of Midwifery, Copenhagen NV, Denmark

Katrien Beeckman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nursing and Midwifery Research unit, faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Annick Bogaerts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Development and Regeneration KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for Research and Innovation in Care (CRIC), University of Antwerp, Belgium

Lorena Binfa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Women´s and Newborn Health Promotion-School of Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Lucy Frith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Services Research, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Mechthild M. Gross

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Midwifery Research and Education Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Björn Misselwitz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Quality Assurance Hesse, Eschborn, Germany

Berglind Hálfdánsdóttir

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Midwifery Programme, Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

Deirdre Daly

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Paul Corcoran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Jean Calleja-Agius

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, Msida, Malta

Neville Calleja

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Directorate for Health Information and Research, Gwardamangia, Malta, Department of Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, Msida, Malta

Miriam Gatt

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Directorate for Health Information and Research, Gwardamangia, Malta

Anne Britt Vika Nilsen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Bergen, Norway

Eugene Declercq

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Mika Gissler

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations THL Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Information Services Department, Helsinki, Finland, Karolinska Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Huddinge, Sweden

Anna Heino

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation THL Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Information Services Department, Helsinki, Finland

Helena Lindgren

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

Ank de Jonge

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery Science, AVAG, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.