Estimated effect of age of marriage on utilisation of India's Integrated Child Development Service programme.

Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (2023)

Postponing age of marriage among young women is an effective intervention for promoting uptake of child immunisation services. Our findings support the Government of India's 2021 Bill to raise legal age of marriage of women.

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