Open AccessKazakhstan gears up to launch social health insurance
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.16.031116
Subject(s) - health insurance , health services , social insurance , medicine , economic growth , business , socioeconomics , political science , environmental health , health care , law , population , sociology , economics
Twenty years ago Yelzhan Birtanov was a physician working in one of Kazakhstan's hospitals, today he is helping to roll out universal coverage of health services in the Central Asian country. He talks to Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan.