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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4112</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131818</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) in Karnataka: A Empirical Analysis&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Devarajappa</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Khalida Khanum</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Nagaraja</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>26</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>8)</volume><issue/><fpage>72</fpage><lpage>78</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) programme has been acknowledged and the service utilization has been expanded among Indian Communities since its commencement in 2005 under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). ASHA workers have been recognized as a viable connection between the community and the health framework regardless of the financial status of community members. Objectives: The present paper discusses the impact of Covid-19 on ASHA workers special on their social and economic status and also examined the challenges faced by ASHA Workers during this pandemic period. Methodology: The researcher has studied 250 ASHA workers randomly from various districts in Karnataka and collected information regarding work difficulties during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and its impacts on socio-economic status. For analysis, statistical tools like mean percentage and ANOVA has been employed. Results: It is found in this study that, on average 165 of the respondents faced difficulties frequently during this pandemic and which is also proved in the ANOVA test (i.e., F, 6.39, 3.25__ampersandsigngt; sign) and 80 to 90 per cent of ASHA s opine that Covid-19 has a lot of impact on social and economic status. Conclusion: The present study discusses the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, majority of respondents felt financial difficulty during the pandemic situation, and said that this situation had also impacted their savings, regular expenditure and jobs of their family members. From this study, it is suggested the Government take some steps to improve the conditions of the ASHA Workers by the means of enhancing their socio-economic status.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>ASHA workers</kwd><kwd> National Rural Health Mission</kwd><kwd> Covid-19 Pandemic</kwd><kwd> Lockdown</kwd><kwd> Socio-Economic Status.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
