RESUMO
Presents an overview of macroeconomic aspects and investment policies in the environment and health. Considers the principal constituents in the investment process and their inter-relationships; development and structure of expenditures in the environment and health; level of compatibility between economic policy and investments in the environment and health; and outlines the investment process cycle. Recommends, the review of all the plans drafted for health and the environment; the identification of the performance gap existing between the planned and the achieved; strengthening the management process; improving the effectiveness of workshops where plans are developed for both environment and health; improving the effectiveness of management training programmes; improving the programme of resource development by ensuring sufficient professionally and technically qualified staff able to undertake project research, planning and programming control; strengthening health research and planning and the Ministry of Health and the Environment; undertaking cost-benefit analyses of current health and environmental policies; and development of a strategy to support the public health service monitored by a task force. (AU)
