An Assessment of Healthcare Reforms in Kazakhstan

This paper examines the state of healthcare development in Kazakhstan since it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.The paper uses secondary sources to investigate various healthcare reforms instituted by the Kazakh government. The paper identifies four aspects in the health reform initiatives (funding, quality, human resources, and partnerships) and their impacts on the country’s healthcare system. In light of the healthcare reform efforts, this study finds that the four aspects of the reforms examined have been helpful towards the country’s health system’s modernization efforts. While progress has been made in Kazakhstan’s health system since its independence, this study observes that healthcare reform is a continuous process, especially for a country undergoing transitional challenges. The paper sheds light on the issue of health reform and its impacts on healthcare outcomes, especially in Central Asia. Keywords: healthcare reform, healthcare systems, Central Asia, Kazakhsta

OrgML - a domain specific language for organisational decision-making

Effective decision-making based on precise understanding of an organisation is critical for modern organisations to stay competitive in a dynamic and uncertain business environment. However, the state-of-the-art technologies that are relevant in this context are not adequate to capture and quantitatively analyse complex organisations. This paper discerns the necessary information for an organisational decision-making from management viewpoint, discusses inadequacy of the existing enterprise modelling and specification techniques, proposes a domain specific language to capture the necessary information in machine processable form, and demonstrates how the collected information can be used for a simulation-based evidence-driven organisational decision-making

Public Sector Reform in the Republic of Kazakhstan

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