Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06
- Oh, CNN
Politics
- Image
2011-07-28 - Sub Rosa Endorsement
2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
- Image
News
- KZBlog is going down
2013-09-10 - Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - Repentence
2012-07-15
- KZBlog is going down
Fun
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
Redbubble
Tag archive for ‘healthcare’
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Healthcare and the Private Sector
Another post that’s been lounging in obscurity: Interesting report on healthcare reform in Kazakhstan. Specifically, a grad student from Kazakhstan did a survey of doctors on the decision of working in public or private sector. The result seems to be that doctors move from public to private when they fear the public sector is unstable […]
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Unhealthy Lifestyles
I came across an interesting article about Russia and lifestyle diseases. According to the WHO, a large number of deaths in former Soviet states are caused by strokes and heart problems, which are themselves linked to lifestyle choices such as smoking, drinking, eating badly, and not exercising. And the picture is apparently particularly striking compared […]
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Compare the US to Kazakhstan
A fun little tool I stumbled on, If It Were My Home lets you compare two countries based on some basic statistics like GDP per capita, infant mortality rate, and oil and energy consumption. What makes it cool is that it gives the results in individual terms. For example, comparing Kazakhstan to the US, the […]
