Disparities in the timing of antenatal care initiation and associated factors in an ethnically dense maternal cohort with high levels of area deprivation

• Main Authors: Shuby Puthussery (Author), Pei-Ching Tseng (Author), Esther Sharma (Author), Angela Harden (Author), Malcolm Griffiths (Author), Jacqueline Bamfo (Author), Leah Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Late access to antenatal care is a contributor to excess mortality and morbidity among ethnic minority mothers compared to White British in the UK. While individual ethnicity and socioeconomic disadvantage are linked to late antenatal care initiation, studies have seldom explored...