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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] Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries ranked Singapore the 4th healthiest country in the world and first in Asia. [4]
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]
Guided by its vision, "Towards seamless quality care – together", it sought to gradually reshape Singapore's model of healthcare to meet the challenges of a growing and ageing population. [4] In Jan 2018, the Eastern Health Alliance merged with SingHealth as part of a public health restructuring exercise. [5]
Singapore generally has an efficient and widespread system of health care. It implements a universal health care system, and co-exists with private health care system. Infant mortality rate: in 2006 the crude birth rate stood at 10.1 per 1000, and the crude death rate was also one of the lowest in the world at 4.3 per 1000. In 2006, the total ...
The National University Health System (NUHS) is a group of healthcare institutions in Singapore. The group was formed in 2008 and operates several hospitals, national specialty centres, and polyclinics. The National University Hospital is the largest hospital in the group and serves as the flagship hospital for the cluster.
Challenges faced by healthcare system [ edit ] Response against the dengue outbreak was complicated by the concurrent COVID-19 pandemic (and vice versa), with the simultaneous outbreaks putting strain on the local healthcare system . [ 21 ]
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In November 1999, then-Minister for Health Lim Hng Kiang announced that Singapore's public healthcare institutions would be reorganized into two delivery networks, or clusters. [2] In October 2000, the formation of the two clusters - National Healthcare Group and SingHealth - was officially completed. [3]