BACKGROUND The article provides the analysis of death rates in road traffic accidents in Kazakhstan from 2004 to 2010 and explores the use of sanitary aviation. METHODS Data of fatalities caused by road traffic accidents were collected and analysed. Descriptive and analytical methods of epidemiology and biomedical statistics were applied. RESULTS Totaly 27,003 people died as a result of roa...

each country faces a continuing challenge to collect enough blood to meet the national needs. according to who, there should be at least 20 blood donations per 1,000 population for developing countries, in kazakhstan this indicator was only 16.8 in 2011. thus, we conducted an epidemiological assessment and drew a map of the regional distribution of blood and plasma donations in kazakhstan durin...

background: classical bacteriological detection of brucella species from food, and environment is routinely carried out based on morphological and biochemical characteristics. however, for increasing specificity and sensitivity of species identification methods, development of a molecular assay is necessary that was main aim of this study. methods: panel of some reference strains belonging to t...

kazakhstan was the last soviet republic to declare independence. but after the soviet collapse, the country seeks to rebuild its national identity and make economic reforms. changing political and economic structures in these countries due to its high dependence on moscow was not easy. in the early years of independence due to the asian financial crisis the country was faced with severe economi...

Five new species of Berlandina Dalmas, 1922 are described from Mongolia: B. koponeni sp. n. (♂), B. mishenini sp. n. (♂), B. nakonechnyi sp. n. (♂), B. ovtsharenkoi sp. n. (♂♀) and B. yakovlevi sp. n. (♂♀). Nine other species occurring in Mongolia and adjacent Russia, China and Kazakhstan are illustrated: B. caspica Ponomarev, 1979; B. hui Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004; B. nabozhenkoi Ponomarev& Tsve...

The purpose of this work is to identify the positive and negative aspects of parties’ participation in the country’s modernization, which in turn, will help a country to determine the necessary steps to improve the social-economic development. The article considers a question of the role of the dominating party of Kazakhstan and ruling party of China in the country’s modernization. Using a comp...

The aim of the research was to evaluate the incidence of breast cancer in the ecological areas of Kazakhstan and assess the potential . A retrospective study of 11 years (1999 to 2009) was conducted using descriptive and analytical methods. The incidence of breast cancer was the lowest in the Aral-Syr Darya area (18.6±0.80/100,000), and highest in the Irtysh area (48.9±1.90/100,000), with an in...

This paper focuses on inequality in living standards across oblasts and regions within Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Regional inequality is an important area of research and policy development. Inequality in income and consumption are logical outcomes in a market-based economic system. If inequality within countries exists because of barriers to compe...

1 State Medical Diagnostic Center, Dermatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; 2 Kazakh Medical University Continuing Education, Dermatology, Manas Street 34, Almaty 050057, Kazakhstan; 3 University G. Marconi of Rome, Dermatology and Venereology, Rome 00192, Italy; 4 Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatologic Surgery; Onkoderma, private clinic for dermatologi...

The non-marine trigonioidid bivalves show five phases of radiation in the Cretaceous of Pal-Asia: pre-Aptian (?Valanginian/Hauterivian-Barremian), Aptian, Albian, Cenomanian and Turonian-Maastrichtian. Their distribution patterns show two distinct palaeo-river systems feeding trigonioidids. Before the Cenomanian, the river system occupied the southwestern-southern-southeastern Pal-Asian contine...