India’s National Health Mission has trained community health workers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to visit and counsel women before and after birth. This study aimed to examine whether ASHAs’ third trimester home visits may have contributed to improvements in institutional delivery and reductions in perinatal mortality rates (PMRs) between women with … [Read more...] about Associations between community health workers’ home visits and education based inequalities in institutional delivery and perinatal mortality in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study
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Investigating violence against Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs): a mixed methods study from rural North Karnataka, India
In India, female community health workers (CHWs), also called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), provide essential services to their communities. However, their experience of violence as they carry out their work is not well researched. The authors of this paper conducted a mixed-methods study to understand the violence ASHAs experience. They found that violence … [Read more...] about Investigating violence against Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs): a mixed methods study from rural North Karnataka, India
