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Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and Her Role in District Mental Health Program: Learnings from the COVID 19 Pandemic.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Rahul, Patley Chander, K. Rakesh Murugesan, Manisha Anjappa, Adarsha Alur Parthasarathy, Rajani Manjunatha, Narayana Kumar, Channaveerachari Naveen Math, Suresh Bada |
| Abstract | COVID 19 pandemic has posed challenges for public mental healthcare delivery, particularly in LAMI countries such as India. However, this unique situation has also brought in opportunities to revisit the health system and optimally utilize the available resources. In this brief report, we report one such new initiative in which existing community health workers (CHWs), known as ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activist) acted as a bridge between patients with mental illness and the District Mental Health Program (DMHP) of Ramanagara district of Karnataka State, India. They maintained continuity of care of 76 patients by delivering mental healthcare services to the patients’ doorstep. This has paved the way to rethink and revisit their role in public mental healthcare delivery not only during COVID 19 times, but also beyond. |
| Related Links | https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC7811346&blobtype=pdf |
| ISSN | 00103853 |
| Journal | Community Mental Health Journal [Community Ment Health J] |
| Volume Number | 57 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10597-021-00773-1 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC7811346 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| PubMed reference number | 33452947 |
| e-ISSN | 15732789 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer US |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-16 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature 2021 |
| Subject Keyword | Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) Community Healthcare Worker (CHW) District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) COVID 19 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Health (social science) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health |
