Table 1 Health condition focus of publications on ASHAs (n = 122)
Health condition focus | Routine | Special | Total | Health policy and systems research |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Neonatal and child health | 28 | 11 | ||
• Integrated management of childhood illness [86, 88, 90, 156], pneumonia care [36], diarrhoea care [38, 39], other child health [105] | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
• Home-based neonatal care [63, 93, 119, 138], other newborn health [94, 144, 150] | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
• Nutrition (breastfeeding, infant and young child feeding) [97, 106, 115, 129] | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
• Other: childhood developmental delay and disability [124], infant and maternal death tracking [113], pregnancy, delivery and infant death tracking [120] | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Sexual and reproductive health, including maternal health | 27 | 12 | ||
• Maternal healthcare, including pregnancy detection, antenatal care, pre-eclampsia, timely referral [37, 64, 87, 101, 114, 136, 141], institutional delivery [52, 55, 92, 132, 133, 137], maternal death investigation [134] | 12 | 3 | 15 | 11 |
1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |
0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | |
• Others: uterine prolapse [95], cervical cancer screening [159] | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Communicable diseases | 13 | 3 | ||
3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Non-communicable diseases | 8 | 2 | ||
2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
• Tobacco control [41] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Sub-total of all publications with a health focus | 37 | 39 | 76 | 28 |
General ASHA work | 41 | 5 | 46 | 45 |
Total | 78 | 44 | 122 | 73 |