ASHA worker

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key components and posting

• One of the key components of the National Rural Health Mission
•  is to provide every village in the country with a trained female community health activist ASHA or Accredited Social Health Activist. 

Selected

• from the village itself and accountable to it,
•  the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system. 

Following are the key components of ASHA :

कहां की रहने वाली हो एज ग्रुप और मैरिज स्टेटस

•  Asha must be resident of the village
•  married/ widowed/ divorced, preferably in the
•  age group of 25 to 45 years.

एजुकेशन

• She should be a literate woman with due preference in selection to those who are qualified up to 10 standard wherever they are interested and 
• available in good numbers.
•  This may be relaxed only if no suitable person with this qualification is available.

सिलेक्शन की प्रोसीजर 

•  involving various community groups, self-help groups, Anganwadi Institutions, the Block Nodal officer, District Nodal officer, the village Health Committee and the Gram Sabha.

स्किल बढ़ाना 

• ASHA will have to undergo series of training episodes to acquire the necessary knowledge, 
• skills and confidence for performing her spelled out roles.

The ASHAs will receive performance-based incentives 

• for promoting universal टीकाकरण 
• referral and escort services for Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) and
•  other healthcare programmes, and 
• construction of household toilets.

Empowered 

• with knowledge and
•  a drug-kit to deliver first-contact healthcare, every 

ASHA is expected to be a fountainhead मूल कारण of community participation in public health programmes in her village.

ASHA will be the first port of call for any health related demands of deprived sections of the population, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services.

ASHA will be a health activist in the community who will create 

• awareness on health and its social determinants 
• and mobilise the community towards local health planning and 
• increased utilisation and accountability of the existing health services.

promoter 

• of good health practices 
• and will also provide a minimum package of curative care as appropriate and feasible for that level and make timely referrals.

ASHA will provide information to the community on determinants of health such as 

1. nutrition, 
2. basic sanitation & hygienic practices,
3.  healthy living and working conditions,
4.  information on existing health services and
5.  the need for timely utilisation of health & family welfare services.

 counsel women

• on birth preparedness,
•  importance of safe delivery,
•  breast-feeding and
•  complementary feeding,
•  immunization, 
• contraception and
•  prevention of common infections including Reproductive Tract Infection/Sexually Transmitted Infections (RTIs/STIs) and care of the young child.

ASHA will mobilise

 

• She will community 
• and facilitate them in accessing health and health related services available at the Anganwadi/sub-centre/primary health centers,

काम 

•  such as immunisation,
•  Ante Natal Check-up (ANC), 
• Post Natal Check-up
•  supplementary nutrition,
•  sanitation and
•  other services being provided by the government.

She will act as a depot 

older for essential provisions being made available to all habitations like 

• Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORS), 
• Iron Folic Acid Tablet(IFA),
•  chloroquine, 
• Disposable Delivery Kits (DDK)
• Oral Pills & Condoms, etc.

 institutional support या major source of support to ASHA.

 

• Women's committees (like self-help groups or women's health committees),
•  village Health & Sanitation Committee of the Gram Panchayat, 
• peripheral health workers especially ANMs and Anganwadi workers, 
• and the trainers of ASHA 
• and in-service periodic training would be a major source of support to ASHA.

Source : nhm gov.in