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Health City Novena is an integrated healthcare hub located in Novena, Singapore.It anchors the country's Central Regional Health System. [1] By co-locating healthcare services along the spectrum from acute care through rehabilitation to long term care, it aims to enhance collaboration among healthcare institutions.
The healthcare system in Singapore is divided into two sectors; statutory boards and institutions (which are then divided into public and private streams). [10] There are a variety of statutory boards in place, including the Medical Council, Dental Council, Nursing Board, Pharmacy Council, and Optometrists and Opticians Board. [10]
In 1990, the WHO International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals was founded as a multi-city action plan of the WHO Healthy Cities Network Archived 2009-12-05 at the Wayback Machine. In 1991, the HPH network, which was in the beginning an alliance of experts, launched its first policy document, the Budapest Declaration on Health Promoting ...
Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
For strategic planning to work, it needs to include some formality (i.e., including an analysis of the internal and external environment and the stipulation of strategies, goals and plans based on these analyses), comprehensiveness (i.e., producing many strategic options before selecting the course to follow) and careful stakeholder management ...
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]
Singapore Health Services, commonly known as SingHealth, is the largest group of healthcare institutions in Singapore. Established in 2000, the group consists of four public hospitals , two community hospitals, five national specialty centres and a network of eight polyclinics .
Woodlands Health Campus collectively consists of both acute and community facilities. Operated by the National Healthcare Group (NHG), WHC has a total capacity of 1,800 beds [2] and offers general hospital services with community-based care and is part of Singapore's master plan in providing quality and accessible healthcare to all Singaporeans ...