Responsibility of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) in Promoting Health Consciousness among People

Abstract

a flagship program had been started by the Indian government in the year 2005 and this program is the accredited social Health worker activist (ASHA), under the umbrella of the national health rural mission (NHRM).More than 10 lakhs of the ASHA worker have been working in the different state of the India. Later, ASHA has emerged as the one of the most important initiative of the NHRM. A Woman in a community selected as the ASHA worker and trained accordingly to look after the improvement in the health status of the people in her own locality. Indian government focused on the institutionalisation of the delivery of the new born through the ASHA worker and introduce the ASHA activist as the key factor in the improvising the maternal health of the women.ASHAs work with theanganwadi workers some time to promote the health issues and motivate the people especially female about their common problems.