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    Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) and Her Role in District Mental Health Program: Learnings from the COVID 19 Pandemic
    (Community Ment. Health J., 2021) Patley Rahul; K. Rakesh Chander; Manisha Murugesan; Adarsha Alur Anjappa; Rajani Parthasarathy; Narayana Manjunatha; Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar; Suresh Bada Math
    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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    Size, composition and distribution of health workforce in India: why, and where to invest?
    (Human Resources for Health, 2021) Anup Karan; Himanshu Negandhi; Suhaib Hussain; Tomas Zapata; Dilip Mairembam; Hilde De Graeve; James Buchan; Sanjay Zodpey
    Investment in human resources for health not only strengthens the health system, but also generates employment and contributes to economic growth. India can gain from enhanced investment in health workforce in multiple ways. This study in addition to presenting updated estimates on size and composition of health workforce, identifies areas of investment in health workforce in India. The paper using two sources of data: (i) National Health Workforce Account (NHWA) 2018 and (ii) Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017�18 of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) collated comparable estimates of different categories of health workers in India, density of health workforce and skill-mix at the all India and state levels.