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  2. Healthcare in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Chew Chin Hin - Wikipedia

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    He led Singapore's delegation to the World Health Assembly (WHO) in Geneva and the regional assembly (WP Region, WHO) in Manila in the 1980s. He also initiated the Advance Medical Directive (AMD) or living will. He was a senior member of Singapore Medical Council for over twenty years, later he served on its Ethical Committee.

  4. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.

  5. 1996 in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    2 May – The Advance Medical Directive Act is passed to allow people to apply for a Directive should they not want to continue treatment. The law came into effect in 1997. [14] 11 May – The Government announced that it will end SingTel's monopoly on the mobile network by 2000 as part of a move to start competition in the telecoms industry. [15]

  6. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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    The advance directive must state that the designated agent has authority to make health care decisions on the patient's behalf and what limitations, if any, are imposed on the agent's authority. The document should clearly state that the agent's authority begins only when the patent is unable to make health care decisions.

  7. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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    An individual does not need to have an advance directive to have a POLST form although health care professionals recommend that all competent adults have advance directives in place; this will help healthcare providers shape a more concise medical decision that better reflects the individual's wishes. [24]

  8. Ulysses pact - Wikipedia

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    The term is used in medicine, especially in reference to advance directives (also known as living wills), where there is some controversy over whether a decision made by a person in one state of health should be considered binding upon that person when they are in a markedly different, usually worse, state of health.

  9. Health in Singapore - Wikipedia

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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]

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