KS Dental Juris flashcards

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Code on Public Health

The consolidated Kazakhstan statute of 2009 governing healthcare organization, patients' and practitioners' rights, licensing, and state guarantees; it prevails over conflicting ministerial orders.

Subordinate act hierarchy

Presidential decrees, Government resolutions, and ministerial orders rank below codes and laws; a lower act that narrows a code norm is inapplicable to that extent.

Guaranteed free medical care

The state-funded package (ГОБМП) defining the volume of medical care provided free of charge; dental care is covered partly under it and partly as paid services.

Emergency aid duty

The obligation to provide first and emergency aid regardless of a patient's registration, insurance, or ability to pay; refusal creates disciplinary and criminal exposure.

Patient's informed rights

The right to information about one's health, to consent to or refuse intervention, to choose a doctor, to confidentiality, and to compensation for harm caused.

Medical confidentiality

The duty not to disclose a patient's diagnosis, treatment, or private life learned professionally; it survives death and binds all staff, subject to statutory exceptions.

Lawful disclosure grounds

Confidential health data may be released with the patient's written consent or on a lawful request from an investigating or judicial body, and for statutory disease reporting.

Medical licence

A permit issued to a legal entity or individual entrepreneur for medical activity, tied to specific facility addresses and conditional on premises, equipment, staff, and sanitary compliance.

Licence suspension

The licensing authority's measure for gross or repeated breach of licence conditions; the licensee may challenge it before the administrative court.

Accreditation distinction

Accreditation confirms quality and safety against standards and is separate from the licence; it does not authorize activity and cannot replace a required medical licence.

Written informed consent

A document naming the specific intervention, its expected benefit, material risks, and alternatives; a generic unsigned-in-detail form is weak evidence of valid consent.

Health data protection

Health information is a special category of personal data requiring restricted access, secure storage, defined retention, and a lawful basis for any cross-border transfer.

Medical record content

The dental card must contain complaints, anamnesis, objective status, diagnosis, the intervention and materials used, prescriptions, consent, and follow-up, dated and signed.

Record correction rule

Corrections are made by striking through so the original stays legible, then adding a dated, signed new entry; erasure, overwriting, or retrospective entries are prohibited.

Retention of records

Medical records are kept for the periods set by the authorized body and archival law; records of minors are kept until majority plus the statutory term.

Medical error

A non-negligent mistake in diagnosis or treatment made in good faith; it is distinguished from negligence, which implies fault and triggers legal liability.

Civil liability of clinic

The medical organization answers for harm to a patient's health and compensates damage and moral harm; it may then seek recourse against the at-fault employee.

Criminal exposure of dentist

Criminal liability arises for death or serious harm from improper professional duties, unlicensed medical activity, and illegal handling of narcotic substances.

Sterilization monitoring

Sterilizer quality is verified with chemical indicators each cycle and periodic biological controls; results are documented as part of infection-control evidence.

Medical waste classes

Waste is segregated into classes A, B, C, and D under sanitary rules; sharps go into puncture-resistant containers and never into ordinary municipal waste.

Handpiece reprocessing

Reusable dental handpieces require internal cleaning and sterilization between patients, following the manufacturer's instructions, because surface wiping alone is insufficient.

State medicine register

The official register of medicines approved for use in Kazakhstan; unregistered medicines are permitted only under statutory exceptions such as clinical trials or named-patient import.

Narcotic prescription form

Narcotic and psychotropic medicines are prescribed on a special form with stricter accounting and a shorter validity period than ordinary prescription forms.

Narcotic storage rules

Narcotic substances are kept in a locked, accounted cabinet with a special journal recording receipts and issue, and a page-by-page running balance.

Prescription validity

Validity periods differ by medicine class; a pharmacist must refuse an expired, improperly formatted, or quantity-exceeding prescription.

Dental practice forms

A dentist may work as an employee, an individual entrepreneur, or through an LLP; each form carries distinct licensing, tax, and liability consequences.

Working time limit

Normal weekly working time is 40 hours; medical workers have reduced hours under the statutory list, and overtime is compensated per the Labour Code.

Compulsory health insurance

Employers pay ОСМС contributions as part of payroll cost; the insured patient then accesses the compulsory social health insurance package of services.

Conflict of interest

A dentist owning a laboratory or supplier must disclose the interest and must not steer patients for personal gain without clinical justification.

Anti-corruption gift rule

Receiving money, gifts, or services in exchange for preferential treatment is prohibited; the statutory value threshold defines a permissible token gift.

Kickback prohibition

Payments for patient referrals to colleagues, laboratories, or pharmacies are a corruption offence and grounds for disciplinary and criminal liability.

Dental advertising limits

Comparative claims and guarantees of cure are restricted; patient testimonials require consent and must not disclose health data or identify the patient.