THE ROLE OF ASHA WORKERS IN EMPOWERING COMMUNITY HEALTH BY LEVERAGING ICT TOOLS

Abstract

The collective of the Government of India known as the “Accredited Social Health Activist’ (ASHA) is one of such imitative geared to promote rural development by strengthening community service. It regulated a design to disseminate public health information especially in reproductive and child health and other health care concerns among the rural populace. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) is an initiative of the Indian government to enhance the country’s public health system. One of the key aspirations of the NRHM was to provide every village with a trained female community health worker. ASHA is designed and trained to work as an interface between the rural community and the public health system. This research paper analyses the role of ASHA workers in rural community health empowerment through the use of ICT tools and makes an effort to assess how ICT has reinforced the ASHA to carry out their duties at Grama Panchayaths.