Health care in central Asia
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Health care in central Asia
(European Observatory on Health Care Systems series / edited by Josep Figueras ... [et al.])
Open University Press, 2002
- : pb
- : hb
Available at 22 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Central Asia remains one of the least known parts of the former Soviet Union. The five central Asian republics gained their unexpected independence in 1991. They have faced enormous challenges over the last decade in reforming their health care systems, including adverse macro-economic conditions and political instability. To varying extents, each country is diverging from a hierarchical and unsustainable Soviet model health care system. Common strategies have involved devolving the ownership of health services, seeking sources of revenue additional to shrinking state taxes, 'down-sizing' their excessive hospital systems, introducing general practitioners into primary care services, and enhancing the training of health professionals. This book draws on a decade of experience of what has worked and what has not. It is an invaluable source for those working in the region and for others interested in the experiences of countries in political and economic transition.
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Series editors' preface
Foreword
Part one: Context
Health care systems in the central Asian republics
an introduction
History and politics in central Asia
change and continuity
Macroeconomic pressures
Poverty, affordability and access to health care
Patterns of health
The Soviet legacy
the past as prologue
Part two: Health systems and services
The reform process
Health system funding
Allocating resources and paying providers
The health care workforce
Modernizing primary health care
Rationalizing hospital services
Restructuring public health services
Health care systems in transition
Part three: The countries
Profiles of country health care systems
References
Index.
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