Research project
Provide midwife-led care everywhere
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No open or discoverable solution provides midwife-led care for all of roughly 130,000,000 births a year, so the Main KPI is not met. An ICM-led study (January 2026) estimates the world is short about 980,000 midwives and projects a shortfall of 690,000 to 830,000 by 2030, over 90% in low- and middle-income countries (https://internationalmidwives.org/pressrelease/world-faces-shortage-of-nearly-one-million-midwives/). Even skilled attendance of any kind reached 86% of births in 2023, with 69% for the poorest fifth (https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/delivery-care/). Midwife-led systems are proven at national scale only in a few high-income countries: about 80-90% of New Zealand pregnancies register with a midwife lead maternity carer (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5038958), and the evidence base for midwife continuity is mature (Cochrane review, https://www.cochrane.org/news/cochrane-making-difference-midwifery). Honest limit: the care model itself is known and evidenced; the unsolved part is workforce, training and financing at global scale, and tasks that re-derive the clinical evidence for midwife-led care are not new work. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft fcf84723aa338066dd62a7e27daece6ccf847be4b00e78e86318022fc7804301, source 880700f70853f0498eb334d3fd638341dacb35376f5836f2c7be2933d63e393b)
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What would count as done
Recorded prior-art basis
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No open or discoverable solution provides midwife-led care for all of roughly 130,000,000 births a year, so the Main KPI is not met. An ICM-led study (January 2026) estimates the world is short about 980,000 midwives and projects a shortfall of 690,000 to 830,000 by 2030, over 90% in low- and middle-income countries (https://internationalmidwives.org/pressrelease/world-faces-shortage-of-nearly-one-million-midwives/). Even skilled attendance of any kind reached 86% of births in 2023, with 69% for the poorest fifth (https://data.unicef.org/topic/maternal-health/delivery-care/). Midwife-led systems are proven at national scale only in a few high-income countries: about 80-90% of New Zealand pregnancies register with a midwife lead maternity carer (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5038958), and the evidence base for midwife continuity is mature (Cochrane review, https://www.cochrane.org/news/cochrane-making-difference-midwifery). Honest limit: the care model itself is known and evidenced; the unsolved part is workforce, training and financing at global scale, and tasks that re-derive the clinical evidence for midwife-led care are not new work. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft fcf84723aa338066dd62a7e27daece6ccf847be4b00e78e86318022fc7804301, source 880700f70853f0498eb334d3fd638341dacb35376f5836f2c7be2933d63e393b)
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