Management training issues in Kazakhstan School of Public Health

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Management training issues in Kazakhstan School
of Public Health

• Prof. Maksut Kulzhanov
• Kazakhstan School of Public Health

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Kazakstan School of Public Health (KSPH)

• Established in Almaty in 1997 by Resolution of
  the Government of the Republic of Kazakstan 1142
  dated July 21 1997 in accordance with Agreement
  signed by WHO EURO and Ministry of Health of the
  Republic of Kazakstan dated October 18, 1996

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Goals of the School

• Training and retraining of public health
  specialists, leaders of health care bodies and
  facilities , and other specialists.
• Organization and conduction of scientific
  research in the area of public health with
  attraction of partners.
• Expert and consultancy services for ministries
  and other organizations.

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Objectives of the School

• Selection of the faculty that satisfies
  international requirements
• Development training plans and curricula close to
  the best samples of Schools of Public Health in
  the USA and Europe.
• Development of an infrastructure to provide high
  quality of training
• Increase of research potential via KSPH
  participation in international projects.
• Reinforcement of expert abilities of KSPH for the
  Government, ministries and other organizations.

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• KSPH aims to improve health care system through
  training of the new generation of health
  specialists that
• have strategic way of thinking
• are able to provide inter-sectoral collaboration
  in the area of health policy and management
• Know how to provide health services accessible to
  all inspite social level and other factors
• Can effectively implement rational economy and
  financing of public and private sectors of health
  care.

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• Administrator of a new generation should poses
  deep knowledge in the area of
• health politics and management
• economics and financing
• information technologies
• epidemiology
• health statistics
• environmental and occupational health
• health promotion and disease prevention.

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Short-term programs for training and retraining
of administrative staff of healthcare system and
other public health affiliated specialties were
developed according to seven basic Modules. Each
course contains specialty module (a major
discipline a certificate is issued for), two
obligatory and two optional modules.
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Thus specialty module bears integrating function
for obligatory and optional module into one most
appropriate training program that satisfies
moderns requirements for each specialty.
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• KSPH actively trains healthcare specialists on
  short-term courses. In 1999 the number of trained
  specialists was 626, and 939 in the year of 2000.
  

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Number of the KSPH students trained in 1999 and
2000 by regions
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First stage of management training development
was to train faculty and establish appropriate
legal, organizational, technical and financial
infrastructure that provide proper training
standards. Second stage - development and
implementationof short-term training
programs.Third stage development of long-tern
2-year master courses Master of Public Health
(MPH) and Master of health Administration (MHA).
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• Training of the faculty was organized on various
  training courses with assistance WHO EURO in
  several European schools of public health, and
  USAID and AIHA within partnership program.

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• KSPH worked out basic documents like
• Qualification of public health specialist,
• State Standard of higher postgraduate training
  for the specialty of Public health,
• Training curricula for 2-year residency course
  on public health.

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Kazakhstan School of Public Health widely
collaborates with international educational
center like Virginia Commonwealth University
(VCU) with participation and financial assistance
of USAID, AIHA, and some other schools of public
health of West Europe (ASPHER), World Bank
Institute, Soros Foundation, and others.

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Collaboration with AIHA helped us to open
computer learning resource center equipped with
30 modern computers and all necessary equipment
that provide access to communication technologies
and sources of reliable information (including
electronic mail, Internet, CD-ROMs, on-line
data-bases and other resources). That provides an
opportunity for all staff of the School to get
latest information, evidences on new
technologies. Moreover, KSPH has received 15
thousands of books and textbooks that will be
used in training and scientific research.

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Professors of Virginia Commonwealth University,
our partner institution, Yasar Ozcan, Dolores
Clement, Tom Wan, Kenneth White, Robert Grayboys,
Anthony DeLillis, Joan Richardson, Ramesh Shukla,
Karen Swisher and many others have provided great
consultative, methodological, assistance in
development of our master programs
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Step by step KSPH reaches its major goals to
provide education that satisfies international
standards. To continue mutually beneficial
collaboration with WHO, AIHA, CDC and other
international organizations.