Health systems in transition : Uzbekistan

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Health systems in transition
  
Uzbekistan
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Table 6.1 outlines the major health reform initiatives and policy documents 
to date. More detail on the reforms is provided further on in this chapter.
Table 6.1
Major health reforms and policy initiatives following independence
Major national reform policy documents
• 
Presidential rural social sector infrastructure initiative, April 1996
• 
Law on health protection
, 29 August 1996
• 
Presidential Decree on the state programme for a reform of the health care system
, 10 November 1998
• 
Presidential Decree No. 3923, 19 September 2007, on the main directions of future health reforms
 
• 
 Presidential Edict No. 700, 2 October 2007
, a follow-up document to 
Presidential Decree No. 3923
, setting out the 
timeframe and details for the main directions of health reform 
• 
Presidential Decree No. 1652
, 28 November 2011, on the next steps of health reform 
• 
Cabinet of Ministers Decree No. 217
, 2005, on per capita financing in health care
• 
Welfare Improvement Strategy 2008–2010 and 2013–2015