Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) and health status of villages-with special reference to Mysore District

Pavithra, R. H. (2018) Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) and health status of villages-with special reference to Mysore District. Asian Journal of Development Matters, 12 (1). pp. 115-120. ISSN 0976-4674

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Abstract

The Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) programme of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is considered as being vital to achieving the goal of increasing community participation with the health system, and is one of the key components of NRHM, India‘s flagship programme in health launched in 2005. The problem of evaluating ASHA is compounded by multiple and contesting narratives of what constitutes the legitimate role of an ASHA. The discourse on the ASHA‘s role centres around three typologies: ASHA as an activist, ASHA as a link worker or facilitator, and ASHA as a community level health care provider. Another problem for evaluation is that the ASHA programme is implemented concurrently with a number of other components of the NRHM such as the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and the emergency transport (108) programme and it is impossible to isolate or attribute outcomes as being due to the ASHA programme alone. Hence present study makes an attempt to study the socio economic condition of ASHAs and also explains thes role of ASHAs in the improvement of health status of villagers in case study area.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: A Arts and Humanities > Economics
Divisions: Department of > Economics and Cooperation
Depositing User: Manjula P Library Assistant
Date Deposited: 29 Jul 2019 08:16
Last Modified: 29 Jul 2019 08:16
URI: http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/6173

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