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Some common indicators used to indicate health include total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, crude birth and death rate.As of 2017, Singapore has a Total Fertility Rate of 1.16 [5] children born per woman, an Infant Mortality rate of 2.2 deaths per 1000 live births, [6] Crude Birth Rate of 8.9 births per 1000 people [7] and a Death Rate of 3 deaths per 1000 inhabitants. [8]
In 2000, Singapore was ranked 6th in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems. [1] Bloomberg ranked Singapore's healthcare system the most efficient in the world in 2014. [2] The Economist Intelligence Unit placed Singapore 2nd out of 166 countries for health-care outcomes. [3]
This article presents official statistics gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. Number of cases (blue) and number of deaths (red) on a logarithmic scale. The Ministry of Health of Singapore has been publishing official numbers on a daily basis since the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 virus on 23 January 2020.
SICM submitted a position paper on "A formalized accreditation and training system for adult intensive care medicine" to the Ministry of Health, Singapore in 2002. [4] This led to the formation of the Sub-specialty Training Committee in ICM in 2007 [5] and ICM was recognised as a sub-specialty with the Specialists Accreditation Board in 2012.
The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (Abbreviation: NCID; Malay: Pusat Nasional bagi Penyakit Berjangkit; Tamil: தேசிய தொற்றுநோய் மையம்; Chinese: 国家传染病中心), previously known as the Communicable Disease Centre (Abbreviation: CDC), is a national public health institute under the Ministry of Health of Singapore.
Deaths in Singapore offset the population increase from live births. In 2007, 17,140 people in Singapore died from various causes. The death rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 of the population. [ 1 ]
25 February: Singapore announced a ban on visitors arriving from Cheongdo and Daegu in South Korea from 26 February, following a large increase in the number of confirmed cases there. Singapore citizens, permanent residents and long-term pass holders returning from Cheongdo and Daegu within the last 14 days were issued a SHN lasting 14 days. [121]
2005 dengue outbreak in Singapore: 2005 Singapore: Dengue fever: 27 [238] 2006 Luanda cholera epidemic 2006 Luanda, Angola: Cholera: 1,200+ [239] 2006 Ituri Province plague epidemic 2006 Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bubonic plague: 61 [240] [241] 2006 India malaria outbreak 2006 India Malaria: 17 [242] 2006 dengue outbreak ...