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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Act was utilised in several instances to fight misinformation about the pandemic situation in Singapore. On 27 January 2020, HardwareZone forum was issued a general correction direction over a false claim of a man from Singapore having died from the COVID-19 virus. The forum post containing the false claim was ...
Sell's reference is to the "Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation" just released by her center. The 65-page publication amounts to a road map for identifying misinformation and ...
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.
Transgender healthcare misinformation primarily relies on manufactured uncertainty from a network of conservative legal and advocacy organizations. [6] [5] These organizations have relied on similar techniques to climate change denialism, generating exaggerated uncertainty around reproductive health care, conversion therapy, and gender-affirming care.
[4] [5] The shift to virtual interactions exacerbated mental health issues to many, [1] prompting the rapid rise of online counselling that leveraged social media platforms to connect mental health workers with those in need. [6] The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the phenomenon of misinformation on social media, often referred to as an "infodemic."
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng (born 1966) is a Singaporean psychiatrist and researcher who is the current chief executive officer of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). [1] [2] Fung was also the president of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and of the College of Psychiatrists in Singapore. [3] [4]
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008 of Singapore [1] was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him. [2]
"Fear of missing out" can lead to psychological stress at the idea of missing posted content by others while offline. The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of ...