Public media reports of institutional Cesarean section rates have been used as a tool to reduce unnecessary surgical births. We examined women's awareness of the public release of this information according to socio-demographic characteristics in South Korea.
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Pungnap-2Dong Songpa-Gu, Seoul 138-736, Republic of Korea. youngk@amc.seoul.kr