About the Authors

Finn Egil Skjeldestad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

eskjelde@online.no

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Research Group Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Mika Gissler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Knowledge Brokers, THL, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Region Stockholm, Academic Primary Health Care Centre, Stockholm, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Reynir Tómas Geirsson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women’s Clinic, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Anna Heino

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Knowledge Brokers, THL, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Hildur Björk Sigbjörnsdottir

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Information Section, Directorate of Health, Reykjavik, Iceland

Rupali Akerkar

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Devision of Health Data and Digitalization, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway

Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institute, and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Oskari Heikinheimo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Mette Løkeland

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Devision of Health Data and Digitalization, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.