Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

REVIEW ARTICLE ON AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF ASHAs

Dr Uzma Eram

Abstract :

 ASHA(Accredited Social Health Activist) is a health activist in the community, who will create awareness on health and its determinants and mobilize the community towards local health planning and increased utilization and accountability of the existing health services. She is expected to Provide primary medical care with her kit, Control of diseases by information, education, sanitation and surveillance, antenatal, natal & postnatal services to women , counselling on family planning, safe abortion, child Immunization and Vitamin A supplementations, change in behaviour in east feeding, birth spacing, sex discrimination, child marriage, girls education, care of the child especially newborn, household survey, collaborating with health functionaries, working with community for disease control, to create awareness on health and its determinants, mobilize the community towards local health planning, and increase the utilization of the existing health services.

The aim of this study was to review the awareness and knowledge of ASHAs. 

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijar  

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DR UZMA ERAM, REVIEW ARTICLE ON AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF ASHAs, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾2 | February‾2017

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