Articles: pain-management.
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Disparities in neuraxial analgesia use for childbirth by maternal origin have been reported in high-resource countries. We explored the association between maternal immigrant status (characterised separately by geographic continental origin and Human Development Index [HDI] of maternal country of birth) and neuraxial analgesia use. We hypothesised that immigrant women from low-resource countries may have more limited access to neuraxial analgesia than native French women. ⋯ In France, immigrant women from low-resource countries have similar access to labour neuraxial analgesia to native French women. Our results suggest differential neuraxial analgesia use in favour of immigrant women from very high HDI countries compared with native women.