As a response to the Alma-Au slogan of "Health for all by 2000". the safe motherhood emerged as one of the priority areas of the MCH programmes. The universal provision of antenatal care (ANC) to all expectant mothers has been set a goal by the Indian family welfare program. The scheduled tribes m particular, being relatively at the lowest level of social and economic development. have not been able to cope with the strategies in this line Hence, here is an endeavour to examine the background characteristics of the scheduled tribe women to find out the possible determinants of the under-utilisation of ANC" service by then For this, multivariate technique has been used over the data regarding scheduled tribe women of India from the National Family Health Survey, 1992-93. The supply and demand factors associated with utilisation of ANC service by women were examined. The result showed that factors like education atleast upto certain optimum standard such as middle school and high school, increase of living standard and exposure to mass media are able to provide sufficient awareness and a forcibility to women for going for ANC service.
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Nanda et al. (1999) studied this question.