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Although the government of Binjai City has included health as its priority, the size of expenditure budget allocation for this sector did not show the same picture. The proportion of budget allocation on basic health service is smaller for the poor. The local autonomy policy had an impact in reserving budget to expense the programs in health office. This condition created an sectoral ego of health office which cut the operational expense of puskesmas in Binjai City. Although the operational fund from puskesmas was decreasing, the fact was the contribution of puskesmas to the local revenue of the government in Binjai City was increasing. These are things to be done by the government: 1) the improvement of budget policy formulation mechanism for the poor, 2) DPRD should force bigger allocation to the service on basic health, and 3) the implementation of rule regarding the share of puskesmas in basic health service with local incomeMeskipun Pemerintah Kota Binjai telah memasukkan kesehatan sebagai salah satu prioritasnya, besarnya alokasi anggaran untuk sektor ini tidak menunjukkan hal yang sama. Tampak bahwa proporsi anggaran sektor ini untuk penduduk miskin masih sangat kecil. Adanya kebijakan otonomi daerah menyebabkan pembagian anggaran dilimpahkan kepada Dinas Kesehatan. Namun kondisi ini justru menimbulkan ego sektoral pada Dinas Kesehatan yang memotong dana operasional puskesmas di Kota Binjai. Walaupun dana operasional puskesmas mengalami penurunan, pada kenyataannya kontribusi puskesmas terhadap pendapatan daerah di Kota Binjai meningkat. Berikut ada beberapa hal yang perlu dilakukan oleh Pemerintah Kota Binjai. 1) memperbaiki mekanisme formulasi kebijakan anggaran untuk penduduk miskin, 2) DPRD sebaiknya mendorong anggaran yang lebih besar dialokasikan pada pelayanan kesehatan dasar, dan 3) menerapkan peraturan terkait dengan kebijakan anggaran daerah terhadap puskesmas dalam pelayanan kesehatan dasar.

Although the government of Binjai City has included health as its priority, the size of expenditure budget allocation for this sector did not show the same picture. The proportion of budget allocation on basic health service is smaller for the poor. The local autonomy policy had an impact in reserving budget to expense the programs in health office. This condition created an sectoral ego of health office which cut the operational expense of puskesmas in Binjai City. Although the operational fund from puskesmas was decreasing, the fact was the contribution of puskesmas to the local revenue of the government in Binjai City was increasing. These are things to be done by the government: 1) the improvement of budget policy formulation mechanism for the poor, 2) DPRD should force bigger allocation to the service on basic health, and 3) the implementation of rule regarding the share of puskesmas in basic health service with local incomeMeskipun Pemerintah Kota Binjai telah memasukkan kesehatan sebagai salah satu prioritasnya, besarnya alokasi anggaran untuk sektor ini tidak menunjukkan hal yang sama. Tampak bahwa proporsi anggaran sektor ini untuk penduduk miskin masih sangat kecil. Adanya kebijakan otonomi daerah menyebabkan pembagian anggaran dilimpahkan kepada Dinas Kesehatan. Namun kondisi ini justru menimbulkan ego sektoral pada Dinas Kesehatan yang memotong dana operasional puskesmas di Kota Binjai. Walaupun dana operasional puskesmas mengalami penurunan, pada kenyataannya kontribusi puskesmas terhadap pendapatan daerah di Kota Binjai meningkat. Berikut ada beberapa hal yang perlu dilakukan oleh Pemerintah Kota Binjai. 1) memperbaiki mekanisme formulasi kebijakan anggaran untuk penduduk miskin, 2) DPRD sebaiknya mendorong anggaran yang lebih besar dialokasikan pada pelayanan kesehatan dasar, dan 3) menerapkan peraturan terkait dengan kebijakan anggaran daerah terhadap puskesmas dalam pelayanan kesehatan dasar.

Gina's post on Indiana's DEI-related law came at a fortuitous time for me, because last week I participated in a panel about State Legislatures, Academic Freedom and Public Universities. The panelists were given about 6 minutes to present some prepared remarks' and discussion ensued. As far as I could tell there was just one state […]

My paper with Kailey Mullane on what's wrong with free public college has been published in Educational Theory, open access so anybody who wants to can read it. Obsessive readers of CT (are there any?) will know that I've had a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the issue for quite a while, […]

The text telling me Tim had died came through a few minutes before a series of meetings with students. After the feeling of sickness and dread that hit me I wondered whether to go ahead anyway, and then thought what a strange thought that was. But my stepmum told me later that when my dad […]

Well, you know that, thanks to Maria's lovely post earlier this week. I'll post a long, maybe self-indulgent, remembrance in a week or two (I've been overwhelmed by things this week, including the kind of staggering outpouring of affection ad memories on social media, in my inbox (Among the many messages came a lovely email […]

This is my marmalade-making time of the year. Not because it's the only time I can get hold of Seville oranges – I can get hold of the MaMade tins any time of year, and have only ever gotten fresh ones to use one time that I happened to visit a friend in Arizona who […]

If you haven't yet listened to Emily Hanford's Sold a Story, you probably should, now. It's brilliant, if profoundly depressing. Very brief synopsis: the methods routinely used to teach children to read in the US don't work well for large numbers of children, and the science of reading has been clear about this for decades. […]

BBC obit here. I have a very fond memory of Parkinson. I played cricket regularly against one of his sons — our (state) school teams, and club teams, played each other twice a year for several years, and Parkinson was a frequent and keen attender, so a familiar figure. One year his son's club team […]

Twenty years and a few months ago Chris asked me to join a group of bloggers who were going to create a group blog so as to reduce the pressure on each to post frequently and combine audiences. First I asked him what a blog was. After he explained I told him that I, a […]

Harry M Markowitz received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990 for his pioneering work in portfolio theory. He also received the von Neumann Prize from the Institute of Management Science and the Operations Research Institute of America in 1989 for his work in portfolio theory, sparse matrices and the SIMSCRIPT computer language. While Dr Markowitz is well-known for his work on portfolio theory, his work on sparse matrices remains an essential part of linear optimization calculations. In addition, he designed and developed SIMSCRIPT - a computer programming language. SIMSCRIPT has been widely

After more than a decade of increasing control, malaria has been making a dramatic resurgence in the 1970s — a resurgence which has been allowed to continue unchecked for several years. This article seeks an under standing of this de-control in the history of the class politics of public health and in an analysis of the current international capitalist crisis. These past and present experiences are analysed within a new Marxist perspective which emphasizes the autonomy of working class struggle within and against capital and the central role of the wageless in capital's division of the class. To analyse the role of un waged labor in the accumulation process and the investment or disinvestment in public health the concept of the "circuit of the reproduction of labor power" is developed. In each of the historical periods the development or underdevelop ment of public health programs are seen as the outcome of the particular charac teristics of the working class struggles and of capital's strategies of these periods. On the basis of these analyses the author suggests that the current de-control of malaria is part of that underdevelopment approach to some areas which forms part of capital's strategies of repression and global restructuring in the present crisis.