Health Reform in Kyrgyzstan

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The First Central Asia Conference on Quality
Improvement in Healthcare
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Objectives

• Identify quality of care issues
• Better knowledge of type and magnitude of issues
• Better understanding of causes
• Better awareness of complexity
• Learn from improvement experiences
• What seems to work
• What failed
• What challenges remain
• Strengthen health sector reforms
• Links between reforms and quality
• Changes that need to occur
• What the field of QI can bring

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Program of the Conference

• 8 sessions over 2 days
• 6 themes
• EBM
• QI Projects
• Patients roles
• Patient safety
• QI policies
• Barriers to improvement
• Types of session presentations/lectures, plenary
  discussions, panel discussion, roundtables and
  group work
• 8 facilitators

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Organizers

• ZdravPlus/USAID
• Ministry of Health in Uzbekistan
• TIAME
• TASHMI-2
• WHO

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Audience

• About 120140 people from 4 Central Asia
  Countries
• Senior decision-makers, managers, healthcare
  providers, representatives of associations,
  international organizations, patients
• Republican and oblast levels, facilities