Toward a new generation of knowledge workers – driving evidence based decisions

In their transition to market economy – and in response to the constraints of being over-centralized and needing to be more responsive to users’ real needs – all Central Asian Republics embarked on health sector reform in the early 1990s. Most have put in place a process, supported by studies and needs assessments that has led to creation of policies, with the goal of building effective health services...Read More »

Health Research Systems in Tajikistan

The Tajikistan Health Sector Policy: “Conception of Health Care Reform in the Republic of Tajikistan”^[1] serves as a good example of a national priority setting exercise It targets nine objectives and related....
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Health Research in Kazakhstan

TKazakhstan’s health sector reforms target the creation of efficient health care delivery system, based on six guiding principles:

• Setting joint responsibility between the state and population for
health
• Transition to international principles of health care delivery based on
primary health care
• Creating a health management model supported by an integrated
health information system
• Strengthening maternal and child health
• Ongoing reduction of incidence diseases that take a toll on society
• Reform of the medical education system

Republic of Kazakhstan National Program of Health Sector Reform and Development 2005 – 2010

Государственная программа реформирования и развития здравоохранения
Республики Казахстан на 2005-2010 годы

The Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED):

Central Asia Programme

The Council on Health Research for Development supports a range of health sector partners in Central Asia in their efforts to put reforms into action. The Council’s core activity is to help create the conditions for the generation of new knowledge, information and research, required for more evidence-based decision-making....Read More »