Background and objectives: The Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) represents a significant advancement in India's healthcare infrastructure, particularly aimed at enhancing access to medical services for underprivileged populations in both rural and urban settings. The study aimed to evaluate the awareness and understanding of the ABHA among underprivileged populations in both rural and urban settings, to analyze the attitude of the community toward digital health records and the ABHA system, and to analyze the relationship between the status of ABHA and various sociodemographic characteristics of the study population. Materials and methods: A mixed-method study was conducted in Bhopal as part of the baseline survey for the multi-centric study under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Task Force Project titled "Task force study for evaluation of community level acceptability, scalability and linkage within the health system of ICMR pre-validated Labike technologies for screening (2) Aadhaar not linked to mobile numbers; (3) not willing to get ABHA number; (4) unaware of ABHA and no interest in getting it. This study also assessed the relationship between the status of ABHA and various sociodemographic characteristics of the study population, in which gender, residence, education, and employment were found to be statistically significant.
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