Online Antenatal Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities and Challenges

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 22; no. 7; p. e19916
• Main Authors: Wu, Huailiang, Sun, Weiwei, Huang, Xinyu, Yu, Shinning, Wang, Hao, Bi, Xiaoyu, Sheng, Jie, Chen, Sihan, Akinwunmi, Babatunde, Zhang, Casper J P, Ming, Wai-Kit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor 22.07.2020; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviruses; Cost analysis; COVID-19; Developing countries; Female; Health disparities; Health services; Hospitals; Humans; LDCs; Medical personnel; Mortality; Mothers; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Pregnancy; Prenatal Care; Prenatal education; Reliability; Remote Consultation; Reproducibility of Results; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Technology; Telemedicine; Trust; Viewpoint; Womens health; Working women; China; COVID-19; inequality; SARS-CoV-2; online education; online prenatal education; telehealth; pregnancy; antenatal; convenience; coronavirus disease

People across the world have been greatly affected by the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The high infection risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in hospitals is particularly problematic for recently delivered mothers and currently pregnant women who...