Awareness and Attitudes Concerning AYUSH among the Villagers of Yamunanagar District Haryana.

The Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy (ISM&H) were given an independent identity in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 1995 by creating a separate Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in November 2003. Mainstreaming of AYUSH implies integration of infrastructure, manpower and medicines of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) to strengthen the public health care delivery and strengthen the AYUSH systems at grass root level by establishing a linkage between modern medicine and AYUSH systems in a collaborative way. Mainstreaming of AYUSH is a policy commitment of government of India and it received momentum by the launch of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in April, 2005. The present study was done in two villages of district Yamunanagar, Haryana on the sample of 25 which consisted professional allopathic doctors, traditional healers and village respondents to know their awareness and attitudes regarding AYUSH. In the present study it was found that the potential barriers that emerge are the lack of awareness about the government's AYUSH scheme and for successful implication it is required that awareness at grass root level should be promoted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]