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A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből

Is this public health strategy spending the right amount on the right things?

994 million forints implements a national health strategy whose programme mix faces the same evidence question as all central health-promotion budgets.

About 249 Ft per taxpayer per year — 994 million Ft — for strategy implementation that has not been evaluated against demonstrated health outcomes.

1 milliárd Ft előirányzat 221 Ft / adózó / év

Amit látsz — és amit nem

The seen: a national public health strategy with a funded implementation office. The unseen: the health interventions that would reduce mortality and morbidity most efficiently but do not receive funding because the strategy mix is set administratively rather than by evidence of impact.

Ellenvetés

"National health strategies prevent disease and save the healthcare system money in the long run."

Válasz

A strategy that works does save money; a strategy that spends on activities without demonstrated impact does not. Holding the budget flat is not an argument against public health — it is an argument for an evidence review before the budget expands. Real value will erode modestly under the freeze; that is the incentive for the review.

Share if you think public health spending should be evaluated, not automatic.

Az elemző értékelése

Nemzeti Népegészségügyi Stratégiával összefüggő feladatok

Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.

Indoklás

Strategy-implementation funding; like the Health Promotion Offices, it faces the programme-mix knowledge problem. Held flat pending evidence review.

Átállási mechanizmus

Hold the nominal allocation flat pending an evidence review of which strategy components demonstrably work.

Érintett csoportok

Public-health staff and the populations served by National Public Health Strategy programmes; no immediate displacement.

Szabad Társadalom Intézet

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