Authors: Anand Kawade, Manisha Gore, Pallavi Lele, Uddhavi Chavan, Hilary Pinnock, Pam Smith & Sanjay Juvekar for the RESPIRE collaboration
In India, CHWs, also known as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), have been deployed since 2005. By engaging them in various healthcare delivery models, they have become essential to providing population- specific and community healthcare. This study explores the current workload of ASHAs and how to further utilize them in more expansive ways.
Link: Interplaying role of healthcare activist and homemaker: a mixed-methods exploration of the workload of community health workers (Accredited Social Health Activists) in India
Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Task shifting, Workload
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2021
Region: Asia
Country: India
Publisher May Restrict Access: No