Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and Her Role in District Mental Health Program: Learnings from the COVID 19 Pandemic

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...

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Autores principales: Rahul, Patley, Chander, K. Rakesh, Murugesan, Manisha, Anjappa, Adarsha Alur, Parthasarathy, Rajani, Manjunatha, Narayana, Kumar, Channaveerachari Naveen, Math, Suresh Bada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
Materias:
Fresh Focus
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7811346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33452947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-021-00773-1
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Sumario: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.

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