There are still not enough basic public services — like hospitals and child-care centers.
These topics included: problem-solving, human resources, finance management and budgeting, basic public health, biostatistics/research methods, hospital operations, strategic management, health policy development and analysis, health ethics and public health law, leadership, and management information or tools.
A study in 2014 revealed the following average shares of the yearly income of a public hospital physician: basic salary (42%), allowances, such as length-of-service or hardship allowance (12%), overtime compensation (17%), outpatient fees (8%) and physician fees (21%).
[Update: The Times Of India has since published a blog post by Mark Zuckerberg entitled "Free Basics protects Net Neutrality". He argues that "We have collections of free basic books. They're called libraries. They don't contain every book, but they still provide a world of good. We have free basic healthcare. Public hospitals don't offer every treatment, but they still save lives".
The basic public health care system includes a district hospital with 150 beds, 3 regional polyclinics and 32 commune health stations.
The short-term goals of the health-care reform comprise five key programmes: expedite the establishment of a basic medical security system, initiate a national basic drugs system, improve the primary health-care service system, promote the gradual equalization of basic public health services, and implement a pilot programme of public hospital reform.
TAKE a tour round the wards of a public hospital in sub-Saharan Africa and you will soon see that basic health care can be very basic indeed.
Far from São Paulo's downtown area where most jobs are concentrated, peripheral neighbourhoods also lacked the basic public services associated with modern urban living, including a proper sewage system, running water, paved roads, electricity, hospitals and schools.
