Roles and responsibilities of asha

Roles and responsibilities of asha

1. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ASHA HARIOM MEHTA M.sc Nsg Previous

2. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASHA :- Asha will take steps to create awareness and provide information to the community people on determinants of health such as; Nutrition Basic sanitation Healthy living and working conditions etc 2)She will counsel women on; Birth preparedness

3. Motivating women to give birth in hospitals Importance of safe deliveries Aware about breastfeeding and complementary feeding Bringing children to immunization clinics Aware about contraception Prevention of common infections including reproductive tract infections 3) Asha will mobilize the community and facilitate them in assessing in health and health related services available at the anganwadi ,

4. subcentre,primary health centre such as immunization,antenatal check up,post natal check up etc. 4)She will work with the village health and sanitation committee of the gram panchayat to develop a comprehensive village health plan 5) Asha will provide primary medical care for minor ailments such as diarrhoea,fever and first aid for minor injuries She will also provide directly observed treatment short course(DOTS) under revised

5. National Tuberculosis Control Programme 6)She will inform about the births and deaths in her village and unusual health problems to the community to subcentre and primary health centre 7)Encourage the community people for family planning;for example-surgical sterilization 8)Keeping demographic records and improving village sanitation 9)ASHA’s are also meant to serve as a key communication mechanism between health care system and rural population

6. MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF ASHA’S WORK:- Government of india has set up following indicators for monitoring ASHA 1)Process Indicators 2)Outcome Indicators 3)Impact indicators PROCESS INDICATORS:- a)Number of ASHAs selected by due process b)Number of ASHAs trained

7. c) Number of ASHAs receiving drug kit OUTCOME INDICATORS :- a)Percentage of families counselled b)Percentage of children with diarrhoea who received ORS c)Percentage of institutional deliveries d)Percentage of complete immunization IMPACT INDICATORS:- a)Infant mortality rate(IMR) b)Child malnutrition rates

8. c)Number of cases of TB,leprosy detected as compared to previous year