Assessing the coverage of full antenatal care among adolescent mothers from scheduled tribe and scheduled caste communities in India

• Main Authors: Aditya Singh (Author), Vineet Kumar (Author), Harpreet Singh (Author), Sourav Chowdhury (Author), Sanjana Sharma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The persistently high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity among historically marginalised social groups, such as adolescent Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in India, can be attributed, in part, to the low utilisation of full antenatal healthcare services....