Study on impact of community participation on health care promotion of Barpeta District of Assam

Abstract

Health is an important element of human development. India to arrive WHO’s slogan ‘Health for All’ amongst different ways also included community participation as an important tool to arrive health issues from the grass root level. Community participation and its important role on health is found in different studies for different parts of India, while with respect of Assam a very less studies were there. The present study is an attempt to find how far community participation was successful to promote health particularly of the Barpeta district of Assam. The study took the participation of members of panchayats in health care activities as the community participation. Mean health participation index and mean awareness score on 0 to 1 scale is calculated to examine community participation on health development. It is found from the study that community participation on health had positive linkages with the increase in awareness of the members of the panchayats about the available health care services and their roles and functions on delivery of health services. Absense of proper guidelines for health partcipation, lack of proper coordination among the panchyat members and district health centres etc, lead to absentia nature of health participation of panchayts.