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EDITORIALS: Kristina Fister and Martin McKee Health and health care in transitional Europe BMJ 2005; 331: 169-170 [Full text]

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How to treat the problems?

Timur Y. Aripov   (4 May 2008)

How to treat the problems? 4 May 2008
Timur Y. Aripov, Senior teacher of Health management department Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, Tashkent 700007, Uzbekistan Send response to journal: Re: How to treat the problems?	One should avoid the slashing critical rhetoric which is best-selling in publications concerning the healthcare in post soviet and eastern Europe countries. In this period of both positive and negative outcomes in reforming the systems it seems more helpful for politicians and practitioners in and out of these countries to be proposed specific formula how to make the health systems more welcome to evidence but not just critiquing them. The experience says that political and economic status is not always crucial for promoting evidence-based medicine (EBM) in these countries, so it is important to point out the impeding factors for this process and the way how to remove them in local condition of work and such publications should be supported. Competing interests: None declared