Authors: Vrinda Marwah
In India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) play a vital role in providing care for marginalized communities. ASHAs remain hopeful that their role as vital community health workers will eventually become professionalized through the government. The author of this article argues that the state’s ability to provide hope to its ASHA workers of a professionalized, government job is why, in part, ASHAs continue to remain in a workforce though they are overworked and underpaid.
Link: Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India
Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Gender, professionalization
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2021
Region: Asia
Country: India
Publisher May Restrict Access: No