DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT “AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE” Project e-services in functional tasks, the ensuring of existing information security, the training of skilled users and specialists and activities in other important spheres. 7. The development of human capital and social spheres The concept prioritizes the provision of high quality health and education services to the population and the availability of these services to various social groups, including lowincome families and poor citizens as a strategic line. 7.1 The main tasks in the sphere of the population’s health and the health care system To this end, it is planned to dynamically increase the share of the funding for the health system in the gross domestic product and form mechanisms that ensure the effective and purposeful use of the funds. In order to strengthen the logistical base of the health system, health institutions will be constructed, refurbished, reconstructed, provided with modern medical equipment and at the same time, the health reform will continue in a planned manner. Measures will be taken to abandon extreme centralization in the management of the health system and to replace purely executive functions in management with administrative-economic forms and thus the powers of various management entities will be effectively separated and their activities will be coordinated. Mandatory medical insurance and on its basis, conditions will be created to improve the quality of medical aid, protect patients’ rights and improve control mechanisms. As a result of reforms in the health system, medicine oriented towards in-patient aid will be replaced with medicine where first medical sanitary aid is dominant and relevant conditions will be created for expanding the practice of family doctors. At the same time, active and purposeful work will be carried out to improve out-patient and clinical services. The state will carry out work to fight diseases (diabetes, haemophilia, thalassaemia, oncologic diseases, immunoprophylaxis, hemodialysis, tuberculosis, AIDS, etc.) and implement preventive measures, sanitary-educational work, and various state programmes against drug addiction, alcoholism and smoking. Preventive measures against infectious diseases will be strengthened, and a programme will be prepared to develop the sanitaryepidemiological service in 2015-2020, which provides for appropriate measures. Along with that, a special strategy will be adopted on the fight against non-infectious diseases (smoking, obesity, lack of physical activity, abuse of alcohol, etc.) in 2013-2020, and practical measures will be taken to create conditions and opportunities for a healthy lifestyle and expand educational work to boost the population’s responsibility and interest in its health. 21