How are gender inequalities facing India’s one million ASHAs being addressed? Policy origins and adaptations for the world’s largest all-female community health worker programme
Abstract Background India’s accredited social health activist (ASHA) programme consists of almost one million female community health workers (CHWs). Launched in 2005, there is now an ASHA in almost every village and across many urban centres who support health system linkages and provide basic heal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Human Resources for Health |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-018-0338-0 |