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Healthy Living, Everyday

WEBHealthy Living, Everyday. ETHOS Issue 17 June 2017. Health in Singapore has improved substantially over the past five decades. Medical advances and a high standard of public …

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Realising the Promise of Health Information

WEBMore comprehensive information for better medical care. The National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) serves as a one-stop repository of key patient health …

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Strategic Orientations in Singapore Healthcare

WEBETHOS Issue 09, June 2011. Health systems around the world range in strategic orientation from the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS)’s approach of free …

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Creating the Future of Healthcare: A Conversation with Tan Chorh …

WEBProfessor Tan Chorh Chuan is Chairman of the MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT). He set up MOHT in 2018, and was concurrently MOHT’s …

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Nurturing Leaders for the Future Healthcare

WEBThis led to the establishment of the Healthcare Leadership College (HLC) in 2012 to lead efforts in nurturing and developing healthcare leaders for the nation. HLC’s …

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Health is Social: The Future of Care in Singapore

WEBAccording to the Ministry of Health (MOH): In 2019, the number of elderly living alone increased to 67,600, up from 47,000 in 2016. This increase represents 11.9% of our …

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Strengthening Mental Wellbeing in a Pandemic

WEBETHOS Issue 22, June 2021. A Pandemic of Stressors. Clinical criteria such as suicide rates, depression and anxiety diagnoses, and institutionalisation rates are commonly …

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The Next Bound of Health and Healthcare

WEBAt the Ministry of Health (MOH), we are shifting the centre of gravity of healthcare towards prevention on all levels: keeping healthy individuals well; early …

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Getting Ready for Precision Public Health

WEBPrecision Public Health is the use of technology and the principles of public health to advance the health system and population health goals. Public health has …

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Designing a Healthier City

WEBNext, we can look at design at the building scale. In 2017, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health did a study on the impact of green buildings' indoor …

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Transforming Community Care in 2030

WEBCommunity Care Vision 2030. Our vision is a community-based support system that is: proactive in going upstream to support seniors, pre-empting issues of …

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Building an Age-Inclusive Healthcare System in Singapore

WEBDemedicalising Ageing. A crucial step to make the healthcare model more age-inclusive is to demedicalise the ageing process. For far too long, ageing has been …

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Singapore’s Whole-of-Government Approach in Crisis Management

WEBWhole-of-government culture needs to permeate the whole of government. A WOG-mindset among public officers at all levels is the software that lubricates the …

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Transformation in the Singapore Public Service: Emerging …

WEBIt will also align with efforts and recommendations from the Emerging Stronger Taskforce (EST), announced in April 2020. These efforts will bring together public, private and …

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Humanising the Future of Care: A Conversation with Leong Choon …

WEBAt the same time, we also want to reward the patient for taking care of their own health. Patients can now get 3,000 health points (which is worth about $20 in value) for sitting …

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New Strategic Capabilities and Partnership Paradigms for …

WEBSingapore is not alone in its bid to redefine partnership paradigms towards a stronger social sector. In response to a confluence of global and domestic pressure for reform, …

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Successful Ageing – A Review of Singapore’s Policy Approaches

WEBThe IMC had proposed a review of policies that cater to two-generation families and to extend them to three-generation families. Since 1999, more emphasis has been placed …

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Successful Ageing: Progressive Governance and Collaborative …

WEBThe Ageing Planning Office is secretariat to the Ministerial Committee on Ageing which maintains policy oversight over the Action Plan for Successful Ageing, a …

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The Role of Public Communications and Engagement in a Pandemic

WEBPublic trust, communications and engagement operate in a virtuous cycle, where one feeds into and builds upon the other. With countries now rolling out vaccination programmes, …

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