Knowledge of ASHA workers under NRHM on Antenatal, Postnatal and family planning Services.

Prof.R. Jayasree; Dr. G. Gnanaprasuna

Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2016

Knowledge of ASHA workers under NRHM on Antenatal, Postnatal and family planning Services.

Prof. R. Jayasree, Dr. G. Gnanaprasuna

Abstract :

Good health status of women not only enables them to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives, also assures healthy child or healthy family. In India pregnant women die due to a combination of important factors like, poverty, ineffective or unaffordable health services, lack of political, managerial and administrative will. All these factors culminates in a high proportion of home deliveries by unskilled relatives and delays in seeking care and that in turn adds to the maternal mortality rates. To reduce the maternal and infant mortality the Government of India had adopted a time bound and mission oriented approach to correct the public health situation in the country in April 2005 , through National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) The main objective of National Rural Health Mission was to create functional health facilities within the public health system. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) are appointed under NRHM, who provides MCH services to the pregnant women and children. The present paper is based on an empirical study to analyse the Knowledge of ASHA workers on Antenatal, Post natal and Family planning services in Chitoor district of Andhrapradesh.