Socio-Economic Determinants of Adherence to Iron and Folic Acid Tablets Among Rural Ante-Natal Mothers in Lucknow, India

• Main Authors: Manas P Roy (Author), Uday Mohan (Author), Shivendra Kumar Singh (Author), Vijay Kumar Singh (Author), Anand Kumar Srivastava (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medsci Publications, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Anemia is a great challenge for maternal health in India, affecting more than half of the pregnant mothers. For combating this, iron supplementation during pregnancy has long been recognized as a way. Recent document indicates that only 23% women consumed iron tablets for at least 90 d...