BOOKS OF RtfiDIfGS - PAHO/WHO

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2. Programs for bringing together schools of engineer-
-,g, business and medicine are not, a priori, guaranteed to
succeed.
(Conversely, at Sao Paulo, Brazil,
a Joint program between a business school and private hospital
has proven to be successful.)
3. An underlying problem in the educational process
is that schools of administration are primarily oriented to the
private sector. They have had little experience (and often
little interest) in the public sector.
4. Most Latin American professors of public health
are physicians. They have typically shown a resistance to
the participation of other disciplines in the education process.
This has been true in the overwhelming majority of programs in
Latin America.
5. The Latin American universities typically don't
have the financial resources to keep quality faculty. The
result is that most leave for industry, consulting or jobs in the
USA. Thus, obtaining and maintaining human.resources may be
the most pressing problem facing educational institutions.
6. There are both institutional and political barriers
which prevent a public health school from developing a formal
relationship witb a management school. Without these formal
relations, it is very difficult to develop any type of educa-
tional program. This type of intransiance may not be resolved
until those who are reiponsible for budgotary decisions are
cognizant of the situation and the necessity for its resolution.