"Cinemeducation" as a teaching-learning tool in Community Medicine for Phase II MBBS students.

Background: Many public health topics in the subject of Community Medicine have a psycho sociocultural aspect to them, and these are taught by traditional methods like didactic lectures with little or no interaction of faculty and students. This limits the comprehensive understanding of the students regarding sensitive issues. There is a felt need to improve the knowledge and understanding of many of these competencies among students through available cinema movies addressing these concepts.

Integrating health care delivery and data collection in rural India using a rapidly deployable ehealth center.

Anurag Agrawal and colleagues describe their experience of setting up a readily deployable cargo container-based health center in rural India.