Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)
Significance
- Create Awareness: By educating the public on nutrition, fundamental sanitation & hygienic habits, healthy living & working conditions, etc., they raise awareness of health determinants.
- Assists in Birth Preparation: ASHA offers advice to expectant mothers on topics such as birth planning, the value of a safe delivery, breastfeeding, contraception, immunisation, child care, and the prevention of STIs and RTIs (reproductive tract infections).
- Serve as Basic Medical Providers: ASHA offers first medical attention for minor injuries and illnesses including fever and diarrhoea.
- Assists with Record-keeping: They also inform the sub-centres and primary health centres on births, deaths, and any disease outbreaks or ....
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- 6 Forced Displacement
- 7 Changing Dynamics of Modern Indian Society
- 8 Social Consequences of Urbanization
- 9 Nationalism vs. Regionalism
- 10 Native Languages
