For 43% of Brazilians, health should be a priority for the next president

A survey by CNI (National Confederation of Industry) shows that 43% of Brazilians think public health should be the priority for the next president.

To improve the sector, 31% cite hiring more doctors and nurses, 21% building new hospitals and health centers, 21% improving hospitals and health centers, and 19% qualifying doctors and nurses.

Public education comes next, with 34% of the citations as a priority theme. Then comes job generation, with 21%. The percentages represent the sum of the 1st and 2nd choices of the interviewees.

The CNI’s Agenda of Priorities survey, commissioned at FSB Pesquisa, interviewed 2,030 people over 16 in the 27 units of the Federation.

The interviews, done by telephone, were conducted from August 16 to 21. The margin of error in the total sample is two percentage points, with a 95% confidence interval.

When asked about the areas that have improved the most in the last four years, 42% of those interviewed answered “no area”. Next come education and health, both with 7%, job creation (6%), social programs (5%), infrastructure/works (5%), and security (4%).

For the president of CNI, Robson Braga de Andrade, the study shows that Brazil needs to advance even more to return to sustained growth, raise the population’s average income, and place itself among the most developed countries.

“Improving the quality of formal education and expanding the supply of vocational education is essential for young people to be adequately prepared to meet the new demands of the labor market and to face the growing challenges of the knowledge era,” he said.

EMPLOYMENT IS A PRIORITY

Regarding the economy, Brazilians prioritize job creation, as indicated by 44% of those interviewed – 1st and 2nd choices combined.

Tax reduction and the reduction of social inequality/poverty come next (with 26% of the answers each), along with fighting inflation (24%), followed by controlling public spending (14%) and reducing interest rates (13%).

Those interviewed also highlight the elected government’s main paths to stimulate employment. The reduction of payroll taxes appears in 39% of the answers, followed by the strengthening of professional training programs, indicated by 38% of the population.

Next is the release of credit for companies to invest and expand their production capacity, with 33% of the answers, and new improvements in labor legislation, indicated by 22% of those interviewed.

“To overcome the high unemployment rates, which imply a true social scourge, affecting almost 10 million workers, Brazil needs to grow again in a more consistent way and overcome some structural obstacles,” says Robson Andrade.

According to the Industrial Work Map, by 2025, Brazil will need to qualify 9.6 million people in industrial occupations.

TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

The survey also shows that, in education, Brazilians want the government to prioritize teachers’ professional development and teaching centers’ structures.

The study says that 1 in 4 people think that one of the priorities is to improve training (26%) and increase teachers’ salaries (23%).

In addition, it is necessary to improve the conditions of educational establishments (17%) and build more schools and daycare centers (13%).

As for the stages of education, literacy should be the priority for education for 36% of people, followed by technical/professionalizing education (20%), basic/fundamental education (13%), high school (10%), higher education (10%), and specialization/post-graduation (9%).

For 3 out of 4 Brazilians, spending on education is insufficient. Even so, 72% of Brazilians believe the service quality should be better with the current resources.

FUTURE OF THE ECONOMY

Brazilians are optimistic about the economy’s future but negatively assess the current economic situation. Almost half of the population (49%) evaluates the current situation of the Brazilian economy as bad or terrible, while 15% consider it great or good.

But the expectation of better days reaches 59% of those interviewed, who believe that the situation of the economy will improve a lot or a little over the next two years. On the other hand, 17% consider that the future will get a little worse or a lot worse.

With information from Poder360