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Introduction: India is facing acute shortage of doctors in rural areas. The government wants to make it compulsory for all MBBS graduates who have completed their internship to do one year of rural service if they wish to pursue post-graduation. Objective: The current study was planned to assess feasibility and acceptability of rural posting among medical students. Materials and Methods: It was a mixed-approach study design with both qualitative and quantitative approach conducted among 163 medical undergraduate students from three major medical colleges of Delhi. Focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted among medical students followed by a cross-sectional questionnaire based research. Data was analyzed using SPSS software version 17. Quantitative data was presented in mean±SD and proportion. For qualitative data, thematic analysis was done. Results: A total of 163 students participated in the study. 123 (75.5%) of participants were females and 40 (23.3%) were males with a mean age of 19.92±2.45 years. Less than 15% of the students accepted positively for rural posting. Insufficient incentive, security problems, cultural differences from the rural population, lack of infrastructure in rural settings, political motives in implementing rural posting, etc., were main reasons discouraging students from rural posting.

Program monitoring and evaluation is essential to know whether the program inputs are adequate to implement the program strategy, and outcomes are achieved as planned. It also provides opportunity to find out the strengths and weaknesses and strategies to improve in future. It provides evidence-based information for revision of the program. The objective of the study was to collect the feedback from the stakeholders and monitor the activities at the program study center to assess the problems faced by program in-charges, academic counselors and learners, and design a feedback format, analyze the data and design monitoring format for monitoring the implementation of the program at various program study centers from IGNOU, HQ using information communication technology. This will help to assess the input and process quality. Further, it will provide vision for revision of implementation strategy of the program in future. Initially feedback was sought from program in-charges and academic counselors and based on this feedback format was designed

Household air pollution is the degradation of household air quality by harmful chemicals and other materials; it can be up to 10 times worse than outdoor air pollution. This is because contained areas enable potential pollutants to build up more than open spaces. Statistics suggest that in developing countries, health impacts of household air pollution far outweigh those of outdoor air pollution. Household air pollution from solid fuels accounted for 3.5 million deaths and 4.5% global daily-adjusted life year (DALY) in 2010; it also accounted for 16% particulate matter pollution. HAP is 2nd in the top ten risk factors for death in India according to Global Burden of Disease Registry, India data, WHO, 2013. This paper provides an evidence-based review of Household air pollution, its effect on health, and suggested control measures.