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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. The following is a list of mental disorders as defined at any point by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). A mental disorder, also known as a mental illness ...
Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders; Feighner Criteria; Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), 1970s-era criteria that served as a basis for DSM-III; Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), an ongoing framework being developed by the National Institute of Mental Health; International Classification of Diseases (11th Revision) [1]
Singapore opened its first psychiatric hospital, the Institute of Mental Health, in 1928, and all general hospitals currently have psychiatry departments. [1] Major depressive disorder is the most common mental illness in Singapore, with about six percent of the population suffering from it.
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]
However, these are widely believed to be underestimates, due to poor diagnosis (especially in countries without affordable access to mental health services) and low reporting rates, in part because of the predominant use of self-report data, rather than semi-structured instruments such as the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID ...
Singapore ranked 105th by age-standardised suicide rate according to the World Health Organization in 2016. [6] Generally, the rate of suicide is rising. In 2016, the rate of suicide was 8.54 per 100,000 individuals, up from 8.43 in 2015. [7] Like most issues of mental illness and death, suicide is generally viewed as a taboo subject in Singapore.
Woodlands Health Campus: 2023 Woodlands: Public (National Healthcare Group) Yishun Community Hospital: 2015 Yishun: 224 [20] Jurong Community Hospital: 2015 Jurong East: Public (National University Health System) 400 [21] Ang Mo Kio - Thye Hua Kwan Hospital: 1993 Ang Mo Kio: Not-for-Profit 360 [22] Ren Ci Community Hospital: 1994 Novena: Not ...