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India's health care delivery system portrays many contradictions. Enthusiastic policy discourse on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and user charges co-exist. Grand plans for international health tourism focusing on super-specialty hospitals in the cities are made, while health payments push 60 million Indians below the poverty line every year. The overall public expenditure on health is at just over 1% of GDP but more budget cuts and insurance-based financing are being proposed. Oxfam India's new Working Paper, "Financing Healthcare for All in India: Towards a Common Goal" highlights some of these contradictions and explores the challenges facing India's health sector.
Sengupta (2013) observes that one reason for the unified support of UHC among international agencies was the global rise in catastrophic Out Of Pocket Spending (OOPS) on healthcare. This is in the backdrop of crumbling public health systems, which in turn was a consequence of a prolonged period of neglect of public healthcare and privatisation of health systems, as prescribed by the World Bank reports in 1987 and 1993.
Because of the devastating effects of payments during health shocks, OOPS became politically untenable and UHC was seen as a solution. Evidence of adverse effects of user charges was mounting too. In a way, for many international institutions, promotion of UHC meant a reversal of some of their previously held policy positions.
In 2014, the World Bank president Jim Yong Kim admitted : "There's now just overwhelming evidence that those user fees actually worsened health outcomes. There's no question about it. So did the bank get it wrong before? Yeah. I think the bank was ideological".
Unfortunately, this new consensus has not yet shown much policy impact in India. The Indian public healthcare delivery system still has user charges, and exemptions for low-income groups are known to be extremely ineffective. The system is also being pushed towards an insurance-based model, which promotes private sector providers. Reportedly, India's efforts towards UHC is to be based on the experience of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)– an insurance-based scheme targeting households below the poverty line.
This centrally sponsored scheme – which has been in operation for seven years – gives selected poor families (up to five members) an annual coverage of up to $470 worth of secondary level care for an annual fee of less than half a US dollar. RSBY, and several similar regional schemes operating in the last ten years have failed to significantly expand coverage – official data just released indicate that as much as 86% of the rural population and 82% of the urban population are still not covered under any government sponsored insurance scheme.
Despite the inconclusive and generally negative evidence on its impact, the high praise given to RSBY and other health insurance schemes by influential agencies including the World Bank and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has contributed significantly to its policy popularity. An Oxfam paper described such praise as "both premature and dangerously misleading".
Evidence-based policymaking?
Despite the popularity of government- funded insurance schemes at the highest levels of policymaking, there is resistance within the government structures to objectively evaluate the performance and impact of the schemes. Fan and Mahal (2011) observed that politicians and administrators often presume that independent evaluations cause more damage than benefit, and governments in India are known to be hesitant towards conducting independent evaluations of health insurance schemes such as RSBY. It is often claimed that some "rigorous assessment" of its impact is done, but RSBY shares the scheme data "only with a carefully selected group of researchers" – this lack of transparency prevents public scrutiny.
Until now there is no disaggregated data available on government's reimbursement to the health providers through RSBY. Simply put, we do not know how much money is going to the private sector, or how much is flowing back to the public sector. After it was quoted as a successful international UHC case study, and a potential model to expedite India's UHC, the RSBY data portal stopped uploading even the basic state level data, which was being infrequently updated earlier.
The latest data available on the portal is from the first quarter of 2014. The latest evaluation published is from the first quarter of 2013. For many states like Bihar, latest data from many districts are from 2012. The allegation that RSBY is a private sector subsidy scheme still stands, particularly in the light of high prevalence of corruption and the limited or even negative impact that the scheme seems to have on OOP spending.
In the light of latest government' evidence showing that a decade of promoting health insurance schemes across the country has resulted in only about 12% urban and 13% rural population getting covered, there is dire need of a rethink about how India can really achieve UHC. It needs to start with strengthening the public system that India already has rather than reinventing the wheel.
On 2nd July 2015 at the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP), Oxfam, together with Dr. Anuj Kapilashrami of the Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, convened a session entitled 'Private sector and Universal Health Coverage: Examining evidence and deconstructing rhetoric'.
As an earlier blog explained, the session aimed to look at new and existing evidence on the role of the private for-profit sector in health, and to critically evaluate this in the context of achieving UHC in low- and middle-income countries. The five papers presented at the session looked at a wide range of private sector actors in health care delivery but raised a number of common themes and challenges.
High costs, and continued challenges around out-of-pocket spending (OOPS), was a common theme across the papers. One paper presented by Asha Kilaru, examined state insurance schemes in Karnataka, India, and found that OOPS were prevalent across the schemes, even where all costs should be covered. The study found 93% of those insured by at least one government scheme sought care from a private hospital, but only 8% reported receiving completely free care. Where healthcare was provided for free, additional costs (such as multiple hospital referrals for different tests and treatment) meant OOPS still occurred. It seems that this was a problem particularly associated with private provision of healthcare, as evidenced by one respondents' interview:
'Only the operation [C-section] was free. At the government hospital, a C-section would be only Rs3-4000, but we went to a private hospital since we had insurance and wound up spending so much. It seems like government are agents that send us to a private hospital. In this yojana [Yeshasvini insurance scheme] the government spends and we also spend'.[i]
Difficulties faced in controlling the level of fees charged by private providers were also highlighted. In a paper by Jane Doherty examining the for-profit private healthcare sector in East and Southern Africa, it was noted that out of sixteen countries, 'no country places a ceiling on the prices that its private hospitals may charge' (although there may be some limitations to reimbursement payments made by insurers in two of the countries). The paper also explained that 'there is little control of the fees charged by health professionals or limits placed on their total incomes, except in Kenya'.
Equity and access for the poorest
Challenges in controlling OOPS and the overall costs of private healthcare present significant obstacles to achieving UHC, and especially to ensuring access to healthcare for the poorest. Another recurring barrier to equitable access highlighted is the location of private services. A paper mapping India's private healthcare provision by Mukhopadhyay et al highlighted that urban, metropolitan areas benefit from the majority of private hospitals, while in rural areas, disproportionately populated by poorer people, the private sector is largely comprised of individual practitioners. Moreover, almost half of India's private hospitals were located in cities with a population of more than 5 million. Mumbai alone has 16% of all India's private hospitals.
Poor quality and regulatory challenges
Usar's paper investigating perceptions of shops selling medicines in Nigeria highlighted major concerns around their 'pervasive regulatory infringements' – and especially the selling of drugs beyond the scope of their licenses – as well as the lack of training of staff. The same paper pointed to the challenges of regulating medicine vendors in Nigeria in order to improve their quality, highlighting that regulation has been constrained by inadequate funding, weak institutional capacity, the often-remote location of the shops, and inter-regulatory agency conflicts.
Doherty's research examining East and Southern Africa's for-profit private providers pointed out that both an absence of regulation, and poor enforcement of regulation where it exists, contribute to problematic dynamics around private sector healthcare actors there. We have already heard how little legislation exists to control costs within the sector, but the study also found that that there is almost no regulation that guards against anti-competitive behaviour. Furthermore, 'there is little monitoring by governments of quality and health outcomes, or attention to how the private health sector supports national health objectives'.
The same paper flags additional challenges to regulation, including patchy regulatory frameworks, the high cost of introducing new regulation, limited available information on the private sector, and the resistance of key stakeholders to regulation, or their "capture" of regulation to safeguard their own interests. In South Africa, for example, attempts to regulate dispensing fees for pharmacists have been resisted heavily.
Impact on the public system
Doherty concludes that 'legislative gaps and enforcement problems, together with the fact that prices are not contained in any meaningful way, either through price controls or active reimbursement mechanisms, mean that for-profit private care in the region is likely to become increasingly unaffordable for any but the wealthiest'. Yet, if the for-profit private sector is poorly regulated and potentially growing, what impact could this have on the public health system left for the majority of the population?
Doherty points to South Africa as an example, where one impact of a strong private sector has been the 'brain drain' of human resources away from the public sector to much more lucrative private providers. The final paper by Jisha C. J., examining a state health insurance scheme in India (Kerala), highlights an additional worrying trend, where some private hospitals register in the state insurance scheme, only to de-register themselves once they have attracted some new patients to their facility. It can be assumed this trend will waste public resources spent on administration, as well as raising serious concerns about both equitable access and the behaviour of private providers.
The evidence presented at the Oxfam-University of Edinburgh session makes a further contribution to the debates over the role of the private sector in achieving UHC. While the papers can only shed light on the specific areas they analyse, it is clear that the wider themes they highlight chime with the findings of broader studies on the comparative roles of the public and private sectors.
Oxfam hopes to continue these discussions further, and will be hosting additional blogs on Global Health Check from the contributing authors and discussants exploring the details of the evidence presented in the coming months.
[i] The paper notes that 'while it is claimed that [the] Yeshasvini [scheme] is self-funded, it received Rs. 40 crore as a government grant in 2012-13 and Rs. 45 crore in the 2013-14 budget'. Rs 40 crore is equivalent to more than USD 6 million while Rs 45 crore is equivalent to almost USD 7 million.
As the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa ends, we present the case for financing health care in India. India is losing vast sums of potential tax money that could finance universal health coverage (UHC) while at the same time decreasing the health budget and promoting private finance and delivery of health services. A recent Oxfam India paper explores available evidence around financing healthcare for all in India and offers recommendations.
1. The potential for tax funding
Free services like healthcare and education are vital to fight poverty and inequality yet India is being denied the resources to fund them. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that developing countries are three times more vulnerable to base erosion and profit shifting activities[1] of multinational companies- they lose 0.84% of GDP in the short run, compared to 0.23% lost by OECD countries. Recent research covering 1500 Multi-National Companies (MNCs) in India showed that those with links to tax havens reported 1.5 % less profit than those with no such links – a strong indication that the former are engaged in profit shifting (a global euphemism for cheating) more intensively than those with no tax haven links.
A study in 2013 showed that according to official sources, the amounts involved in mispricing –manipulation by over-invoicing of imports and under-invoicing of exports- in India ran at US$8.1bn in 2010-11, escalating to US$12.6bn in 2011-12. Corporation tax of 33% on these amounts would have provided US$6.9bn that could have helped fund free quality public services for all in India.
The Indian government can raise funds to invest in public services from a better tax system. The latest report from Global Financial Integrity lists India among the top five countries in the world with almost half a trillion dollars lost in illicit outflows in the past decade alone. Just to compare, India's annual central expenditure on health and rural housing put together is $ 5.4billion.
India's tax to GDP ratio is among the lowest of all G20 countries- far below other BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Moreover, the revenue foregone due to tax exemptions by the central government is estimated to be 43.2% of total tax revenue for the year 2014-15, or nearly 5% of India's GDP. This shows that there indeed are alternative sources that can generate more resources for health.
2. Current financing model and the impact on service use
Out of pocket (OOP) expenditures push an estimated 60 million Indians into poverty every year. User charges still remain in the public healthcare system. The overall public spending hovers at about 1% of GDP – the corresponding figures are around 4.5% for Brazil and 8% for the United Kingdom. During 1986-87, about 60% of the hospitalised cases were treated by the government institutions in urban and rural areas. In 2004, this figure fell to about 40%, reflecting the poor public spending on health[2]. Fortunately, the following decade saw focused attention on rural areas through increased health spending on improving infrastructure in rural India, which is slowly yielding results. Most deliveries across urban and rural areas are now taking place in government hospitals as the following chart shows.
This is a remarkable result given that government funded schemes across the country offered incentives to deliveries in private sector facilities. It shows that people' trust in the public sector has improved.
The shift towards demand side financing was based on a rationale from survey findings during 1987-2004. The argument that even the poor preferred the private sector by 2004 however ignores the fact that this was a period when the public sector was systematically starved of resources and market principles were introduced into the system. Forgone care due to financial reasons had doubled between 1986-87 and 2004, from 15% in rural and 10% in urban areas to 28% and 20% respectively. Data for more recent years will be available by next year.
The spending cuts on public services in the central budget of 2015-16 are deeply concerning. Not only was the total allocations for health cut by about $945 million, but other budget cuts would affect peoples' health too. For example the allocation to the child nutrition scheme was cut by half. At the same time, according to latest available estimates, 48% of children under the age of five are stunted due to chronic under-nutrition, with 70% being anaemic.
3. Where the money should be spent: The privatisation trend
Unfortunately, there seems to be a trend against expansion of public sector provision of service especially from influential think tanks such as Niti Aayog, which just replaced India's Planning Commission[3]. A recent book co-authored by Niti Aayog Vice Chairperson advises against any further expansion of free primary, secondary, and tertiary health care services in the public sector. Instead, it advises the government to focus on providing financial resources to the poor so that they can buy services. It even calls for the government to insist on full cost recovery.
Niti Aayog's latest Working Paper on financing healthcare too veers dangerously towards privatised financing for health care which excludes poor people; unsustainable programs based on Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) without examining the evidence of effectiveness or problems of any of these approaches.
4. Recommendations
[1] according to the OECD the term refers to tax planning strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in tax rules to make profits 'disappear' for tax purposes or to shift profits to locations where there is little or no real activity but the taxes are low, resulting in little or no overall corporate tax being paid.
[2] Still, 60% of all people from the bottom 20% were getting hospitalised in the public sector in 2004.
[3] The Planning Commission was an institution in the Government of India which formulated India's Five-Year Plans, among other functions.
Civil society groups at the recent World Health Assembly criticized the continued focus on insurance schemes in the push for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which all too often includes significant private sector participation. Evidence to support the claim for private sector involvement of this kind remains extremely thin and a new study by the Municipal Services Project shows it could jeopardize public health in the South.
The study compares health outcomes in Chile and Costa Rica, two countries that have come to epitomize contrasting approaches to 'Universal Health Coverage' in Latin America. Chile's focus has been on insurance-based UHC while Costa Rica has built a single public health system. The research provides strong evidence to show that there are widespread and consistent advantages to promoting UHC through a strong public system that funds and provides all medical and preventive services to citizens rather than through a fragmented public-private mix.
It is important to note that both countries have achieved the lowest infant mortality rates and the highest life expectancies in the region thanks to major advances in primary care. But Chile's health 'market' has led to inefficient use of resources, with higher administrative costs and more irrational medical procedures (e.g. caesareans) resulting from oligopolies and collusion among private providers.
One of the major goals of UHC is financial protection for poor households when they face illness. Yet Chileans systematically need to make higher out-of-pocket payments to get medical care in comparison with Costa Ricans. This situation is produced in part by the fact that Chileans pay for health conditions, services or products that are not covered by their insurance (e.g. prescription drugs).
In contrast, Costa Rica's public health care system remains relatively affordable and more efficient, with total per capita health expenditure standing at US$811 compared to US$947 in Chile. Importantly, Costa Rica has also consistently prioritized preventive health care. Expenditure on prevention and public health services from 2002-2006 in Costa Rica is more than double that of Chile (6-7% vs 2-3%). This focus on prevention is more cost-effective and can yield greater public health impacts in the long term.
Using comparable data (Latinobarómetro), the Municipal Services Project study shows that twice as many people reported facing access barriers to health care in Chile compared to Costa Rica, citing distance to hospital, time to obtain an appointment, and cost of seeing a doctor as the major reasons. In addition, lack of access to health services as a result of financial barriers in Chile still stands at 4.2% compared to 0.8% in Costa Rica.
Costa Ricans continue to be largely satisfied with the quality of their healthcare services, more so than Chileans. Interestingly, LAPOP 2012 results show that most people in both countries think that government, rather than the private sector, should be responsible for health care (71.1% in Chile and 67.5% in Costa Rica).
According to the notions of "active purchasing" and "managed competition" – frequently used to promote insurance schemes – the existence of different providers competing for resources should have produced higher levels of quality at lower costs in Chile. The evidence presented in this report shows that such assumptions are not always true.
The Chilean health system is an example of how segmentation produced by the coexistence of private and public insurances is detrimental to efficiency and equity. Collusion among private providers and oligopolies are realities that are ignored in the competition argument.
Debates over the best institutional arrangements to organize universal health care are far from over, but this case study demonstrates that insurance schemes as promoted by some proponents of the UHC agenda are neither the only nor the best option.
Luis Ortiz Hernández is Professor in the Health Care Department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico and visiting professor at Queen's University, Canada. His most recent publication, "Chile and Costa Rica: Different roads to universal health in Latin America," is available here.
At a high-level meeting in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim was unequivocal – "achieving universal health coverage and equity in health are central to reaching the [World Bank] global goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and boost shared prosperity."
Kim's emphasis on equity and the need to prioritize policies that actively redistribute resources and reduce disparities in health coverage marks a crucial and welcome turning point for the World Bank. As Oxfam argued in a recent paper, UHC reforms must be explicit about reducing inequality in access to health services, so that everyone has the same financial protection and access to the same range of high quality health services – according to need and not their ability to pay. Equity must be designed into the system from the beginning with governments and donors ensuring that the poor benefit at least as much as the better off at every step of the way towards universal coverage.
But by far the most significant outcome of the conference was the release of a joint World Bank and World Health Organization proposed framework for monitoring progress towards UHC. The framework sets out clear commitments to reduce out-of-pocket payments and improve access to health care for the poor with two new targets:
These clear targets and deadlines give something progressive to hold the World Bank Group accountable to but why set an 80% rather than 100% target? And if the Bank is serious about them the targets they should be monitored annually and included in the Bank's new corporate scorecard currently under negotiation. And most importantly, what action will the Bank take to deliver against them?
User fees are the most inequitable method of financing health care services, yet they continue to exist in most poor countries. Three people every second are pushed into poverty because of them but donor support for fee removal has remained unacceptably low. The World Bank should break from history and play a clear pro-active role in helping governments to remove fees and to raise and distribute revenue for health equitably across populations.
At the same time the Bank needs to be much clearer that user fees should not be replaced by health insurance schemes that have been proven to prioritize already advantaged 'easy to reach' groups in the formal sector or rely on collecting premiums from people who are too poor to pay. As Oxfam's recent paper showed, the countries making most progress towards UHC have prioritized spending on health from general taxation – either on its own or pooled with formal sector payroll taxes and international aid. Governments and donors, including the World Bank, should use the recent lessons from these countries and build on them.
At the Tokyo event we once again heard calls from Jim Kim for investment in 'affordable' 'quality' 'health coverage' for all, with an emphasis on 'primary health care'. This is positive but we need greater reassurance that the Bank has shifted to a genuine focus on comprehensive primary health care for all as part of its UHC agenda. This would stand in stark contrast to its historic emphasis on 'basic', 'selective' or 'minimum' interventions or packages of care.
We hope world leaders listen to the clear call from the World Bank and WHO for UHC to be included in the post-2015 development framework. Universal health coverage provides the opportunity to accelerate progress on the health-related Millennium Development Goals, address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, and most critically to move towards a more comprehensive approach to deliver on the right to equitable and affordable health care for all. This is something all world leaders should embrace as negotiations on the post-2015 development framework commence.
Ceri Averill is a Health Policy Advisor for Oxfam GB and author of Universal Health Coverage: Why Health Insurance Schemes are Leaving the Poor Behind


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TORONTO — If you're visiting Toronto, you can't help but notice construction cranes, new condos and other signs of gentrification, like restaurants and bars popping up in new hipster 'hoods. But despite the upscale crawl, many of the city's best attractions are tried and true mainstays that can be experienced for free.
Formerly The Gooderham and Worts Distillery, the quaint East End area now known as the Distillery District has been turned into an enclave of art galleries, restaurants and boutiques offering one-of-a-kind fare such as hand-crafted jewelry housed in restored heritage Victorian buildings. Drop in at a gallery, stroll along the cobblestone streets in the warmer months to catch a free concert or check out the Christmas market when the frost sets in. The distillery may no longer be churning out spirits, but the charm of the neighborhood lifts the spirit of this otherwise industrial stretch of the city.
If your tastes are a little more eclectic and organic, make your way through bustling Chinatown to Kensington, where hippies, homegrown fare and hipsters happily coexist for the ultimate in people-watching. The original immigrant inhabitants have left their mark with a bevy of ethnically diverse fare from empanada stands to European cheese shops to Asian fusion restaurants, intermixed with vintage clothing stores, retro furniture shops and just the right amount of fair-trade coffee spots and brooding bars to draw a diverse range of patrons. Pedestrian Sundays are always fun when the streets are filled with bands, buskers, Brazilian drummers, and more, all for free.
Beautiful views and fun freebies abound on Toronto's waterfront. The Harbourfront Centre's 10-acre lakeside site hosts over 4,000 events, many of which are gratis. The arts and culture hub's York Quay Center and The Power Plant have changing arts and photo exhibits year-round for no entry fee. From May to October, take in a different free festival every week ranging from Expressions of Brazil to the Vietnamese Lantern Festival featuring concerts, performances and films. Come November, strap on your skates and glide around the center's rink. On Saturdays, put a little groove in your skate with music from the resident DJ, and all it may cost you is a little embarrassment if you're ability to boogie and balance on blades is off kilter.
The Bruce Trail is the oldest and longest marked hiking trail in Canada at 521 miles long and over 273 miles of side trails, many of which are in Ontario. (The trail helped put the Niagara Escarpment on UNESCO's World Biosphere Reserve list in 1990.) While it's not smack-dab in downtown Toronto, parts of the Ontario section of the route pass through the Greater Toronto area and are a short-to-moderate drive or transit ride from downtown. While autumn turns the trails into blazing streams of fiery reds, pumpkin orange and honeyed hues, the winter snow makes it perfect for cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing.
Until 1999, Guinness recognized Yonge Street as the longest street in the world. That title was up for dispute because by the time it nears the Minnesota and Ontario border, it has turned into Highway 11. But at 1,178 miles, it's still one heck of a stretch of street. Follow it from the start at the bed of Lake Ontario at Queen's Quay, where you can hop on a ferry to head to the Toronto Islands, where bikes and beaches abound. The street moves up through the financial district to the Eaton Center, Toronto's largest downtown mall, and the Yonge-Dundas Square, a mini-Times Square where you can often catch free films, concerts, performances and festivals.
If you keep strolling north, you'll hit Yorkville, where the rich go to shop, nosh and gossip while the rest of us snicker at their poodle-stuffed Louis Vuitton purses.
Yonge Street passes through midtown and into the suburbs where you'll eventually reach rural stretches, kettle lakes and the crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine, protected ecological land.
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Located only 1km from Conwy, this 5 star luxury two-bedroomed apartment, with superb balcony, which is situated in the centre of Deganwy village with spectacular views across the Conwy Estuary towards Snowdonia. It also offers unrivalled views of Conwy Castle and the Marina. This beautifully decorated two-bedroomed apartment with bright modern interiors is a perfect base, whatever type of holiday suits you.
Proprietor: Kathleen Mannion
Conwy View Apartment is a first floor apartment above an architects office.
Because of its unique location, it is just a few steps from all amenities, including several good restaurants, Victorian Tea Rooms an Indian Takeaway and two hotels. Next door there is a pharmacy, and a few doors away there is a post office which is also a small grocery where you can buy essentials like bread, milk, etc. There are also three antique shops a few doors away. There is a 24-hour Tesco approx. 1km away.
The village is only a short distance from the Victorian holiday resort of Llandudno. Bangor and Chester are also close by. There is the convenience of a bus stop and train station on the doorstep.
There are many sights to see nearby - Conwy Castle, Snowdonia National Park, Bodnant Gardens, Greenwood Forest Park and the Welsh Mountain Zoo only minutes away, there is something to fill every day. From leisurely strolls to rock climbing, and from dry-slope skiing to White Water Rafting, you will find an activity to suit you nearby. There are also several golf courses in the locality, and for those who are looking for a bit of retail therapy - the possibilities are endless!!! Conwy View Apartment is an ideal base for whatever type of break you are looking for.
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Although self analysis is a most laudable form of criticism, it can sometimes take such an extreme form that it only defeats its own purpose. The investigation to determine the relative diagnostic efficiency of the various roentgen modalities employed in mass x-ray surveys for tuberculosis case finding by Birkelo, Chamberlain, Phelps, Schools, Zacks and Yershulamy (The Journal, February 8) resulted in the comment that no one technic was superior to the others. In itself this conclusion might lead one to accept any one method of roentgen survey as efficient as another. An examination of the results, however, does not entirely bear this out, for it revealed an astonishingly wide variation in interpretation by various examiners and by the same examiners at various times. One interpreter found 47 cases positive for tuberculosis, while four of the interpreters agreed on only 17 cases. Twenty per cent of the films
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Though widely used, most people are not aware that lithium batteries are dangerous goods and can pose a safety risk if not prepared in accordance with the transport regulations.
To help with their compliance requirements, IATA has developed guidance information for shippers, freight forwarders, ground handlers, airlines and passengers.
The ICAO Council has confirmed the recommendation of the ICAO Air Navigation Commission (ANC) that prohibits, on an interim basis, lithium ion batteries (UN 3480, PI 965 only) as cargo on passenger aircraft. This prohibition is effective 1 April 2016.
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The Lithium Batteries Risk Mitigation Guidance for Operators (pdf) outlines strategies to reduce the risks associated with lithium batteries transportation by air. Intended for airlines, it was developed with input of leading industry groups specialized in the handling of dangerous goods and lithium batteries. The document is copyright-free, allowing download and onward distribution to interested users.
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MY BROOKLYN; The Team That's Filling the Void the Dodgers Left Behind
By MICHAEL SHAPIRO
Published: July 12, 2002
I was 4 years old when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, but unlike the team, I stayed.
I never went to Ebbets Field. I never even saw it. I lived in Brooklyn until I was 21 and when I, too, finally left, I did so still believing that had the Dodgers not abandoned the borough for Los Angeles, Brooklyn would have been altogether different, not the flat, dull Brooklyn I had known, but a lively place where the Dodgers were an endless subject of conversation and an object of our collective heart.
There is nothing so tiresome as waxing nostalgic for a past you've never experienced. Yet over the years, I came to see that I was not the only one haunted by the Dodger ghost. How else to explain all the Brooklyn Dodgers caps and T-shirts, the videos and histories, the endless ploys to entice the team back somehow, the Seattle-based sports memorabilia company that has taken the long-gone ballpark's name, and the enduring thrill of spotting the aging Dodgers at autograph shows? But then, last year, this clutching at the sometimes imagined past mercifully gave way to a shared pleasure of the moment: a new baseball team for Brooklyn.
The arrival of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a New York Mets entry-level minor league franchise, was an event so laden with delight and meaning that the team's Web site was quickly overrun with e-mail messages, not only from those old enough to have sat in Ebbets Field, but also from those like me who had only heard and read and dreamed of it: ''As a kid growing up in Williamsburg in the 80's and 90's,'' one began, ''I always felt I was robbed of a team.''
In the Cyclones' inaugural season, I arrived at the team's KeySpan Park in Coney Island, my wife and children indulgently in tow. I was so excited that I didn't even notice that the roof over the grandstands looked just like the pavilion roof in that most hated place, Los Angeles's Dodger Stadium. I was back, to a place I'd never been.
The Cyclones are, if anything, an even hotter ticket this year. People started lining up before dawn to buy tickets this spring. And within an hour of the opening of online sales, all that was left for a party of eight was the bleachers. Still, an event that a year ago had been a pilgrimage had become an instant tradition: the annual return to the motherland, my family and friends tagging along, all of us doing what I have come to think of as ''the Brooklyn thing.''
Two million people live in Brooklyn, and a lot of them are young and cool and have taken to calling the place ''Brooktown.'' Oh, please. I know there are fashionable places to eat and listen to music in Brooklyn, and together they lend sections of Williamsburg and Park Slope a Manhattanish sort of feel. That is a nice thing, I suppose, but for me it is alien. Manhattan was always ''the city,'' distant and grand. Years ago, when I sat with friends from Brooklyn College at Duffy's tavern on Flatbush Avenue, I never confused Brooklyn with ''the city.'' The boroughs were separate and unequal.
My Brooklyn was a town. It was a place of modest proportions and, yes, at times, aspirations, which is why it has for so long been such a pleasant place to live. Manhattan was the city's center. Brooklyn had been a scattering of districts -- Midwood, Bushwick, New Lots, Flatlands -- all of them distinct towns a century before. This sense of smallness continued well after the towns became neighborhoods, and the borders no more than wide streets like Atlantic Avenue separating, say, Brooklyn Heights from Cobble Hill. Small wonder that many of the Brooklyn Dodgers themselves felt so comfortable in neighborhoods like Bay Ridge, which reminded them of the faraway towns where they'd grown up.
Brooklyn is large: 88 square miles. This means that, historically, there has been little to bind its people together, save for the Brooklyn accent, the Dodgers and envy and resentment of Manhattan. But the Dodgers left 45 years ago. Only in their absence did people who had stopped going to their games come to see just how much having a team meant to so big and diffuse a place. (The Dodgers almost never filled Ebbets Field's 32,000 seats during their final pennant race, won on the last day of the 1956 season.) It should come as no surprise, then, that the arrival of the Cyclones should be cause for such celebration: at long last, something new, just for Brooklyn.
And even if the Cyclones are a minor league team filled not with legends but with players no one has ever heard of, that is beside the point. The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Aquarium, Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden -- these are all well and good. They are institutions, noble but comparatively static. They offer no story line, no plot. For that you need a game and a team to cheer for.
We made the trek from Manhattan to Coney Island on a Saturday last month. My plan was to arrive well before the first pitch at 6 p.m. I felt it was important to build toward the game, to broaden the Brooklyn experience.
The Gowanus Expressway gave way to the Prospect Expressway and, in turn, to Ocean Parkway, a broad and leafy boulevard filled with Orthodox Jewish men and women, sitting, strolling and chatting in a tableau so familiar that it was as if time had stood still.


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The Orange County Women's Chorus creates and performs outstanding choral literature, engages and enriches our audiences, and celebrates women in music.
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OCWC is an amazing organization that promotes women in music. Not only is it a warm and welcoming community of women, but it is also educational and thought-provoking. If you are looking for an organization that makes a real impact in the world of music, look no further!
I was so impressed by the Orange County Women's Chorus at a concert that I auditioned to sing with them the following August. This is my second season as a member, and I couldn't be happier. Every rehearsal and concert is such a pleasure that the time I volunteer doesn't feel like a sacrifice. The women within the chorus have created a wonderful community of mutual support, and I am very privileged to be a part of it.
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Concerts offer versatile, artistic, and enjoyable programs and performance every time.
Many who come to hear the OCWC expecting the usual go home very surprised at the sheer quality of this community chorus.
Earlier this year, a colleague of mine took me to an Orange County Women's Chorus concert. It was a phenomenal concert; the sound the chorus makes is extraordinary. I was so impressed that I auditioned in August and was selected to sing with the group. I am so pleased to be singing with such a great organization. Both the other singers and the leadership of the OCWC are top notch!
The choir is extremely well-organized and the conductor is fantastic. This is also a very talented group of woman who are positive and supportive of each other. If there ever was a winning formula, this is it!
This amazing group of women has brought me so much enjoyment over the years. They perform the best music & support both emerging & lesser known women composers.
The Orange County Women's Chorus has been presenting fantastic concerts for 18 seasons. The music spans the globe, often featuring new work by women composers as well as quality music for women's voices from Hildegard of Bingen to Brahms to Poulenc. The artistic director and singers really connect with their audiences!


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ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta police are expected to announce an arrest
in the January killing of a popular bartender.
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Sendori. How to Remove? (Uninstall Guide)
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If you want to get rid of Sendori ads that are interrupting you while you are browsing on the web, you should remove related browser hijacker. You can do that with a help of automatic removal option or manual removal option. We recommend selecting the first one because it allows avoiding the removal of useful files and programs. However, if you still want to remove Sendori virus manually, you should follow these steps without wasting your time:
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- Here, remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Click Apply to save changes.
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- Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions.
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What did work was all the above and when one of the videos popped up I clicked on the ? next to the close (x). It gave me an option to Opt out of the service. Wallah! No more stupid crap popping up all over the place.
I hope this helps someone that was as frustrated as I was.
The test I used (and how I found out Sendori was installed), I entered a "search term site:abc.com" in the google add-on box. Sendori throws an exception.
Anyway, that SEEMED to do it but I have a feeling it is lurking somewhere. Howd it arrive? Only installs recently have been Adobe Reader, Microsoft, Java, and Mozilla FF. Maybe one of those. Beware.
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"Okavango - Jewel of Africa" Top 5 Page for this destination Botswana by pmarshuk
Botswana Travel Guide: 768 reviews and 2,822 photos
I spent 2 weeks in the Okavango Delta with Wilderness Safaris in their so-called tented camps. Camping was never like this when I was young, see the accomodation tips to get an idea of how luxurious these places are.
Fortunately my daughter and son-in-law were managers at Jao camp so I was able to avoid the very high costs normally associated with these type of camps. (Update - my daughter is now pregnant and they have had to give up this job :-(
Also stayed at Xigera, Duma Tau and Duba Plains camps, all in or around the Delta, but in slightly different environments so each has it's own attractions.
Duba Plains is in an area with large buffalo herds so it also attracts lots of predators and it was here that I saw some fantastic lion action
Botswana has a reputaion of being a very upmarket destination and in general this is true. But it is worth noting that most of the tourism is built up with the aim of helping Botswana and its people. You won't find mega tour companies and hotel chains here. The lodges are on concessions leased from the local tribes and apart from the managers all the staff are from Botswana. In some cases the local villages are extremely involved with running the camps and all take a share of the profits.
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Thanks for reviving a few memories of the Okavango Delta. My pages will hopefully be up soon - do have a look at them.
I hope to see so many animals as you during our next visit to the Okavango thank you for your tips Gracias !!!!
Great tips thanx
Hi there Terrific photo of a Woodland Kingfisher. Back in the 1980s I lived in Botswana and spent several holidays in the Okavango. Your pictures of the makoro have brought it all back to me. Thanks for the memories, Mike
Thanks for the photos and perspective on viewing Botswana. We are going through there to avoid Zimbabwe and the pages helped chose a route.
Great tips! How much does it cost approximately for a safaris for a week?
Thanks for the great information and photographs. We are headed to Botswana in July, staying at Duma Tau as well as others. Looking forward to a great time as it seems you did.
Hello Phil! Thank you for taking me back to Botswana, what an amazing place. Unfortunately my camera decided to stop working there so all I have left are my memories. Happy birthday from Finland!
Excellent pages! I just came back from Namibia. Botswana will hopefully be next! Nigel
Amazing stories and photos! Never really considered Botswana as a destination, but now it's a must! Thank you for the tips.
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