The maximization of the benefits for population’s public health through decision making in public investments

Abstract

The objective of this article is to present the necessity to develop a method for support to the decision making, for the public management which considers quantitative and qualitative aspects. The problem of lack of long term actions and strategies integrated between the federated entities within the public administration, engage the effectiveness of the profits of public investments in the sector of basic sanitation for the improvement of life quality and the population’s public health. The application ofresources in public health is observed, to diminish the effects whose causes would be eliminated, by a conscious administration, which searches for the solution of the causes and the maximization of the profits. The study of the presented case, carried out the correlation between the indices of collection and treatment of sewage system, in the large Brazilian regions, with the infant mortality rates of these same regions. The results verify the existing correlation and aim towards the necessity of integration of public policies with prevention objective.