Knowledge of Anganwadi Workers Regarding Childhood Immunization
Journal Title: Research Journal of Philosophy & Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The word Anganwadi means “courtyard shelter” in Hindi. They were started by the Indian Government in 1975 as the part of the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) scheme to combat child hunger and malnutrition. A typical Anganwadi Centre provides basic health care in Indian villages. It is a part of the Indian public health-care system. Basic health-care activities include contraceptive counselling and supply nutrition, education and supplementation, as well as pre-school education. The centers may also be used as depart for oral rehydration salts, basic medicines and contraceptives. The basic work of Anganwadi Workers (AWW) is extremely important and needs to be carried out in the most efficient manner possible. They need to provide care for new born babies as well as ensure that all children below the age of 6 are immunized or in other words have received vaccinations. To prevent the child from health related problem, immunization is utmost necessary. Immunization of infants protects children from six vaccine preventable diseases, tetanus, tuberculosis and measles. These are major preventable that helps in preventing the child mortality, disability, morbidity and related malnutrition. As the AWW is the key functionary in the ICDS scheme operating at the most peripheral level (1000 population). It is thus of utmost importance that AWW has adequate scientific knowledge about immunization so that she can impart the correct knowledge to beneficiaries. Therefore present study was under taken to find out the knowledge of AWWs regarding childhood immunization. For this purpose, a total number of 60 AWWs were selected randomly from two blocks of District Ghaziabad. They were interviewed with the help of self prepared interview schedule. The results reflect that most of AWWs were from the age group of between 41-50 years. Mostly AWWs were intermediate and 43.33% AWWs had an experience of more than 15 years. It was assess that all AWWs had the best knowledge about Immunization.
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Anchal Sharma
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