Open AccessHow multipurpose health workers spend time during work? results from a time-and-motion study from Puducherry
Author(s) -
Nirmala Saravanan Narayanasamy,
Subitha Lakshminarayanan,
Santosh Kumar,
Sitanshu Sekhar Kar,
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_276_16
Subject(s) - workload , context (archaeology) , documentation , work (physics) , medicine , computer science , nursing , engineering , geography , mechanical engineering , archaeology , programming language , operating system
A multipurpose health worker (MPHW) is the key functionary and the first contact person in a subcenter. This study explores the workload of MPHWs in the multifarious domains of their activities and also assesses their time utilization pattern.