Assessment of integral indicators of the competitiveness of the health research system in the Republic of Kazakhstan
This publication presents the results of assessing the scientific and innovative activities of of medical universities, research and research institutes of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2015-2017. The evaluation of the scientific and innovative activities of the national medical universities, research centers and research institutes shows on the one hand the overall growth of a number of key performance indicators, on the other hand - it is marked low research activity of a sufficiently large part of domestic medical universities, research and research institutes. Even in the most «active in science» organizations, only 20-25% of employees are involved in research and development. The key problems in the field of health research are the inadequate potential of domestic researchers and, in general, low indicators of the competitiveness of scientific research. The analysis of the existing problems in the development of health research system and their causes made it possible to propose a number of measures to improve the competitiveness of medical science, including measures to develop the scientific infrastructure and human resources, the introduction of modern management of scientific and innovation activities both at the level of the MoH and at the level of medical universities, research and research institutes