This is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research, meta analysis of existing studies and systematic reviews, along with commissioned commentaries about maternal and newborn public health and perinatal clinical care. The journal says its readers are obstetrics, public health, and neonatology; childbirth educators; lactation counselors; midwives; physicians; doulas; social scientists; epidemiologists; psychologists; and other policymakers and health workers in perinatal care.